Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Stomias boa
Boa dragonfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Stomiiformes
Family
Stomiidae
Genus
Stomias
Species
boa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Esox boa Risso, 1810, Stomias bonapartei Fowler, 1912, Stomias elongatus atlanticus Pappenheim, 1912, Stomiasunculus barbatus Kaup, 1860 (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.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Stomias boa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24770. Accessed 3 April 2026.