Dragonfish
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The common name dragonfish may refer to several unrelated groups of fishes:
- Barbeled dragonfishes, small bioluminescent deep-sea stomiiform fishes of the family Stomiidae
- Arowana, large freshwater osteoglossiform fishes of the family Osteoglossidae
- Lionfishes, showy, venomous marine scorpaeniform fishes of the genera Pterois and Dendrochirus, family Scorpaenidae
- Several species of Seamoths, small gasterosteiform fishes of the family Pegasidae