Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Malacosteus niger
The black dragon fish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Stomiiformes
Family
Stomiidae
Genus
Malacosteus
Species
niger
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Malacosteus choristodactylus Vaillant, 1888, Malacosteus danae Regan & Trewavas, 1930, Malacosteus indicus Günther, 1878 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Malacosteus niger", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24768. Accessed 5 November 2026.