Macrostomias Brauer, 1902
Body extremely slender, its depth 20-35 times in length. Chin barbel 6-11 times head length, with several complex filaments on sides and end of distal bulb. More than 170 photophores in ventral series (IC).
See family for biology, etc. Species 2; in Clofnam area 1. Recent revisions: Shcherbachev and Novikova (1976).
Species of this genus in the program:
Macrostomias longibarbatus