title: Flashlight fish
text: # Flashlight fish
  
  Flashlight fish is a common name for several fish and may refer to:
  
  * Anomalopidae, a family known as the flashlight fishes, with many species referred to as flashlight fish, especially
     * Anomalops katoptron, from the Pacific Ocean
     * Photoblepharon palpebratum, from the eastern Indian Ocean and the Pacific
     * Photoblepharon steinitzi, from the western Indian Ocean
  * Myctophidae, a family sometimes known as flashlight fishes, with some species referred to as flashlight fish
     * Electrona risso (chubby flashlight fish), found in oceans around the world
     * Protomyctophum crockeri, found in the North Pacific
     * Spotted lantern fish (Myctophum punctatum), found in deep waters of the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea
  * Stomiidae, a family with species referred to as flashlight fish
     * Photostomias, found in deep waters
  