Narcetes stomias, the blackhead salmon, is a species of fish in the family Alepocephalidae (slickheads).
Classification Despite the common name, it is not a true salmon, which are in the genus Salmo and are in the distant Salmoniformes order. Its specific name is from Greek στομίας (stomias, "hard-mouthed").The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A Thoroughly Accurate, Practical & Exhaustive Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language ...%2C%20%22hard-mouthed%22)&f=false
Description Narcetes stomias is blackish in colour. Its maximum length is .
Habitat Narcetes stomias lives in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean; it is bathypelagic or benthopelagic, living at depths of .
Reproduction Narcetes stomias lays eggs of up to in diameter.
The trematode worm Olssonium turneri (family Fellodistomidae) is a parasite upon it.
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