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Chaenophryne longiceps, the can-opener smoothdream, longhead dreamer or smooth-head dreamer, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep sea anglerfishes. This predatory, deep-sea fish is found in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world.
The name "anglerfish" derives from the species' characteristic method of predation. Anglerfish typically have at least one long filament sprouting from the middle of their heads, termed the illicium. The illicium is the detached and modified first three spines of the anterior dorsal fin. In most anglerfish species, the longest filament is the ...
Sladenia shaefersi has a rounded, rather than depressed head with a obviously convex nape, the rear of the body and caudal peduncle are compressed rather than flattened. There is a smooth bony ridge from the top of the orbit to the snout. The few spines on the head are low and rounded and are just noticeable beneath the skin.
Angler fish that washed up on the shore of a California park. ... “Only females possess a long stalk on the head with bioluminescent tips used as a lure to entice prey in pitch-black water as ...
Lasiognathus, the wolftrap anglerfish, is a genus of deep-sea anglerfish in the family Thaumatichthyidae, with six species known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.. Like its sister genus Thaumatichthys, it is distinct from other anglerfish for an enormous upper jaw with premaxillaries that can be folded down to enclose the much shorter lower jaw. [1]
Linophryne arborifera, or illuminated netdevil, [2] is an anglerfish of the family Linophrynidae, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans at depths below 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in the Bathyal zone. Its length is up to 77 mm (3 inches). The female is significantly larger than the mature, parasitic male.
Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes or pelagic anglerfishes, is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes, one of four suborders in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.
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