Pachystomias microdon

The Pachystomias microdon lives in the bathypelagic, marine, depth range 660 - 4000 m environment.

Pachystomias microdon: A species of dragonfish with highly unusual red photophores. These, combined with red-sensitive eyes, give this species a "sniperscope". More

↑ Pachystomias microdon w: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ang.) 3. ↑ Yang, J., Huang, Z. Chen S. and Li Q., 1996. More

Pachystomias microdon (Günther 1878) - (Gibbs in Whitehead et al. 1984:361 , Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:51 , Gibbs 1986:242 , Paxton et al. More

Pachystomias microdon Gìnther, 1887Echiostoma microdon Gìnther, 1878; (valid as) Pachystomias atlanticus Regan & Trewavas, 1930; (synonym) Aristostomias brattstroemii Koefoed, 1956; (synonym) Pachystomias microdon Fujii, 1984 - 24.4. More

Pachystomias microdon: A species of dragonfish with highly unusual red photophores. More

Pachystomias microdon additionally has a red-emitting preorbital photophore. Fluorescence measurements from the intact suborbital photophores, and from their exposed cores, confirm the previous hypothesis that the red light emitted by Malacosteus is spectrally altered by a superficial shortwave cutoff brown filter. More

Common names

Kurenai-hoshi-eso in Japanese (日本語)
Smalltooth dragonfish in English
厚巨口魚 in Mandarin Chinese
厚巨口鱼 in Mandarin Chinese

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