Having a short or narrow mouth, used to describe certain fish and other organisms.
From Greek 'brachy' (short) + 'stoma' (mouth) + adjectival suffix. A variant spelling of 'brachystomatous' appearing in older biological texts.
This is basically the same word as 'brachystomatous' spelled differently—a reminder that scientific terminology wasn't always standardized until pretty recently!
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