Chauliodontinae

Villarins, Bárbara T., Dario, Fabio Di, Eduardo, Leandro N., Lucena-Frédou, Flávia, Bertrand, Arnaud, Prokofiev, Artem M. & Mincarone, Michael M., 2022, Deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiiformes) collected from off northeastern Brazil, with a review of the species reported from the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone, Neotropical Ichthyology (e 220004) 20 (2), pp. 1-78 : 36

Chauliodontinae

Members of the Chauliodontinae can be recognized in the Stomiidae by the dorsal-fin origin well in advance of the pelvic-fin origin, shortly behind head; very long fang-like teeth on both jaws extending well beyond opposite jaw when mouth is closed; dorsal and ventral adipose fin present, dorsal adipose fin large, angular, distinctly placed posteriorly on body; body long, slender, compressed, marked with scale-like hexagonal patterns, each hexagonal cell containing 1 or 2 photophores; 5–7 dorsal-fin rays, the first one elongated, second one with a red photophore on tip; anal fin short, 10–13 rays, below dorsal adipose fin; chin barbel short to absent (Morrow, 1964b; Nelson et al., 2016; Stewart, 2015). A single genus (Fricke et al., 2022).