"astronesthes" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1933, Walter Sydney Berridge, All about Fish and Other Denizens of the Seas & Rivers, page 67:",
          "text": "The astronesthes, or 'eater of the stars,' so called because it feeds entirely upon other 'star-lit' fish called myctophids, is not only endowed with a number of small, luminous organs upon its body, but its fins, and the greater part of its chin-barbels, also emit a bright light.",
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          "text": "You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--",
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          "ref": "2023, Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths:",
          "text": "Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons. But he though of their bodies as philosophies, traditions of thought, as schools of dragonism. A college drop-out, he wondered what was to be learned at their great university: An astronesthes with batteries of hells-eye lights on its cheeks, a looped string of twenty lavender glowing beads suspended from its hyoid dewlap.",
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