Narcetes stomias, the blackhead salmon, is a species of fish in the family Alepocephalidae (slickheads).
Despite the common name, it is not a true salmon, which are in the genus Salmo and are in the distant Salmoniformes order. Its specific name is from Greek ÃÂÃÂÿüïñà(stomias, "hard-mouthed").
Narcetes stomias is blackish in colour. Its maximum length is .
Narcetes stomias lives in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean; it is bathypelagic or benthopelagic, living at depths of .
Narcetes stomias lays eggs of up to in diameter.
The trematode worm Olssonium turneri (family Fellodistomidae) is a parasite upon it.