North Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) Bathophilus longipinnis (Pappenheim, 1914) (off Cape Town; occurs widely in all 3 major oceans) Bathophilus nigerrimus Giglioli, 1884 (off Cape Town and off Port Elizabeth to Mozambique Channel) Chauliodus sloani Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (offshore throughout southern Africa) Echiostoma barbatum Lowe, 1843 (off Cape Town, southeast of Algoa Bay; widespread in tropical/subtropical waters of all oceans) Eustomias bulbornatus Gibbs, 1960 (south and west of Cape of Good Hope; tropical Indian and Pacific oceans) Eustomias filifer (Gilchrist, 1906) (off Cape Point; tropical and subtropical Atlantic) Eustomias grandibulbus Gibbs, Clarke and Gomon, 1983 (off Cape Town) Eustomias lipochirus Regan and Trewavas, 1930 (2 specimens from south west of Cape of Good Hope; Tropical/subtropical Atlantic) Eustomias schmidti Regan and Trewavas, 1930 (off Cape Town; occurs widely in all 3 major oceans) Eustomias trewavasae Norman, 1930 (circumglobal between about 33° and 40°S) Leptostomias gladiator (Zugmayer, 1911) (tropical, subtropical and temperate Atlantic, also Indian and Pacific oceans) Melanostomias niger Gilchrist and von Bonde, 1924 (widespread in Atlantic between 20° and 50°S) Melanostomias valdiviae Brauer, 1902 (off Cape Town and northeast of Durban; all 3 major oceans) Opostomias micripnus (Günther, 1878) (northwest of Cape Town; occurs across the Atlantic, Pacific and possibly Indian Ocean south of about 33°S) (syn. Opostomias gibsonpacei Barnard, 1948) Pachystomias microdon (Günther, 1878) (off Western Cape coast; widespread in all 3 major oceans)(Günther, 1878) Photonectes braueri (Zugmayer, 1913) (off Cape Town; Atlantic and western Indian Ocean) Photonectes parvimanus Regan and Trewavas, 1930 (off west coast; north Atlantic and central Pacific) Trigonolampa miriceps Regan and Trewavas, 1930 (off west coast; apparently circumglobal in Southern Ocean south of 30°S) Boa dragonfish, scaly dragonfish, Stomias boa boa (Risso, 1810) (offshore throughout southern Africa) Stomias longibarbatus (Brauer, 1902), syn. Macrostomias longibarbatus (taken once off Cape of Good Hope, widespread in subtropical and tropical Atlantic and tropical Indian and Pacific oceans) Order Syngnathiformes Family Centriscidae – snipefishes and shrimpfishes Banded snipefish, Centriscops obliquus Waite, 1911 (Cape Columbine to False Bay) Slender snipefish, Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758) (Table Bay to Durban) Family Fistulariidae – flutemouths Serrate flutemouth, Fistularia petimba Lacepède, 1803 (Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific oceans; east coast of Africa south to Mossel Bay; also reported from Walvis Bay and False Bay) Family Syngnathidae – seahorses and pipefishes Longsnout pipefish, Syngnathus temminckii Kaup, 1856 (Namibia to northern KwaZulu-Natal) Missing fish Family Tetraodontidae – puffers Evil-eye blaasop, Amblyrhynchotes honckenii(Bloch, 1785)(False Bay to