stomiid

English

Noun

stomiid (plural stomiids)

1. (ichthyology) Any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.
   • 2001, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing:

     Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deep sea cannot see, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.