''Rhadinesthes decimus'', the slender snaggletooth, is a species of
barbeled dragonfish
Stomiidae is a family of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes. They are quite small, usually around 15 cm, up to 26 cm. These fish are apex predators and have enormous jaws filled with fang-like teeth. They are ...
found in the ocean depths reaching to . This species grows to a length of
SL. This species is the
only known species in its
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
.
References
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Stomiidae
Taxa named by Erich Zugmayer
Fish described in 1911
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