English

Noun

bristlemouth ‎(plural bristlemouths)

1. A member of Gonostomatidae, a family of deep-water marine fish.
   • 2015 June 29, William J. Broad, “An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions”, in New York Times:

     Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.

2. A member of one of several of the species of oceanic ray-finned fish in genera Argyripnus or Maurolicus in the family Sternoptychidae.

Synonyms

• (member of Gonostomatidae): lightfish, anglemouth

Derived terms

• benttooth bristlemouth (Cyclothone acclinidens)
• bicolored Bristlemouth (Cyclothone pallida)
• black bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
• Brauer's bristlemouth (Cyclothone braueri)
• Brock's bristlemouth (Argyripnus brocki)
• deep-water bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
• elongated bristlemouth (Gonostoma elongatum)
• Gilbert & Cramer's bristlemouth (Argyripnus ephippiatus)
• hidden bristlemouth (Cyclothone obscura)
• Kobayashi's bristlemouth (Cyclothone kobayashii)
• Mueller's bristlemouth (Maurolicus muelleri
• pale bristlemouth (Cyclothone alba)
• Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fish (Vinciguerria poweriae)
• Reunion bristlemouth (Argyripnus hulleyi)
• shadow bristlemouth (Cyclothone parapallida)
• showy bristlemouth (Cyclothone signata)
• slender bristlemouth (Cyclothone pseudopallida)
• smalltooth bristlemouth (Cyclothone microdon)
• smalltooth bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)
• tan bristlemouth (Cyclothone pallida)
• tanned bristlemouth (Cyclothone pallida)
• veiled bristlemouth (Cyclothone microdon)
• yellow bristlemouth (Cyclothone atraria)