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Anomalopidae
flashlight fish
Photoblepharon steinitzi
Anomalopid Fish of the Western Indian Ocean
flashlight fish is known from Western Indian Ocean as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Roughies and Allies
- Family
- Anomalopidae
- Genus
- Photoblepharon
- Maximum length
- 11 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Comoros, and Reunion. Also southern Oman (Ref. 11441 ), Somalia (Ref. 30573 ), and the Maldives (Ref. 11303 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

