bristlemouth
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Noun
bristlemouth (plural bristlemouths)
- A member of Gonostomatidae, a family of deep-water marine fish.
- 2015 June 29, William J. Broad, “An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions”, in New York Times[1]:
- Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.
- A member of one of several of the species of oceanic ray-finned fish in genera Argyripnus or Maurolicus in the family Sternoptychidae.
Synonyms
- (member of Gonostomatidae): lightfish, anglemouth
Derived terms
- benttooth bristlemouth (Cyclothone acclinidens)
- bicolored bristlemouth (Cyclothone pallida)
- black bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
- Brauer's bristlemouth (Cyclothone braueri)
- Brock's bristlemouth (Argyripnus brocki)
- deep-water bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
- elongated bristlemouth (Gonostoma elongatum)
- Gilbert & Cramer's bristlemouth (Argyripnus ephippiatus)
- hidden bristlemouth (Cyclothone obscura)
- Kobayashi's bristlemouth (Cyclothone kobayashii)
- Mueller's bristlemouth (Maurolicus muelleri
- pale bristlemouth (Cyclothone alba)
- Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fish (Vinciguerria poweriae)
- Reunion bristlemouth (Argyripnus hulleyi)
- shadow bristlemouth (Cyclothone parapallida)
- showy bristlemouth (Cyclothone signata)
- slender bristlemouth (Cyclothone pseudopallida)
- smalltooth bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
- smalltooth bristlemouth (Cyclothone microdon)
- tan bristlemouth (Cyclothone pallida)
- tanned bristlemouth (Cyclothone pallida)
- veiled bristlemouth (Cyclothone microdon)
- yellow bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
Further reading
- Gonostomatidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Gonostomatidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Gonostomatidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons