''Photostomias atrox'' is a species of

barbeled dragonfish Stomiidae is a family (biology), family of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, that live in all oceans in a wide range of depths. They are quite small, usually around 15 cm, up to 26 cm, and they exhibit a st ...

in the genus '' Photostomias''. The species has been documented in the

Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for se ...

and

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

oceans, and fully-grown members of the species can reach a maximum length of ~15.4 centimeters.

References

Stomiidae Fish of the Atlantic Ocean Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish described in 1890 {{Stomiiformes-stub