Stomiatidae
plural noun
Sto·mi·at·i·dae
ˌstōmēˈatəˌdē
: a family of small slender usually scaleless deep-sea fishes having a short head that bears an enormous mouth full of long powerful teeth and a highly distensible stomach and with living and extinct related fishes forming a suborder of the order Isospondyli compare dragonfish
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from Stomias, type genus (irregular from Greek stoma mouth) + -idae