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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 ...
Haplophryne. Haplophryne mollis, the ghostly seadevil or soft leftvent angler, is a species of anglerfish in the family Linophrynidae and is the only species in the genus Haplophryne. It is found in the bathypelagic and mesopelagic zones of tropical and subtropical parts of the world's oceans at depths down to about 2,250 m (7,400 ft).
Lophius gadicensis Cabrera, Pérez & Haenseler, 1817. Lophius piscatorius, commonly known as the angler, [2] frog fish, [2] fishing frog, [2] monk, [2] European angler, [citation needed] common monkfish, [citation needed] sea devil, [3] or devil fish, [3] is a monkfish in the family Lophiidae. It is found in coastal waters of the northeast ...
Rhynchoceratias Regan, 1925. The footballfish form a family, Himantolophidae, of globose, deep-sea anglerfishes found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean. The family contains 23 species, all of which are classified in a single genus, Himantolophus.
see text. 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. These fishes are found in tropical and temperate seas throughout the world. One of the better known traits of the deep-sea anglerfishes is their extreme sexual ...
Chimerism occurs naturally in adult Ceratioid anglerfish and is in fact a natural and essential part of their life cycle. Once the male achieves adulthood, it begins its search for a female. Using strong olfactory (or smell) receptors, the male searches until it locates a female anglerfish. The male, less than an inch in length, bites into her ...
The humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) is a species of black seadevil in the family of Melanocetidae, which means "black whale" in Greek. [1] The species is named after James Yate Johnson, the English naturalist who discovered the first specimen in Madeira in 1863. [2] The common names include anglerfish, viperfish and fangtoothfish ...
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]