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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 ...
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 Atlantic, from the Barents Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar ...
Lophius. Members of the genus Lophius, also sometimes called monkfish, fishing-frogs, frog-fish, and sea-devils, are various species of lophiid anglerfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Lophius is known as the "monk" or "monkfish" to the North Sea and North Atlantic fishermen, a name which also belongs to Squatina squatina, the ...
The black seadevil family, Melanocetidae, was first proposed as a subfamily in 1878 by the American biologist Theodore Gill. [2] The only genus in the family is Melanocetus which was proposed as a monospecific genus in 1864 by the German-born British herpetologist and ichthyologist Albert Günther when he described the humpback anglerfish (M. johnsoni). [3]
The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish (Histrio histrio) [4] is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes, the only species in the genus Histrio. It lives among Sargassum seaweed which floats in subtropical oceans. [5] The scientific name comes from the Latin histrio meaning a stage player ...
M. johnsonii is a black soft-bodied anglerfish that is dark brown or black in color. [9] Female humpback anglerfish have short, globular bodies, large heads with a widened mouth that is nearly vertical, and long pointed teeth capable of eating prey larger than themselves. [1] [3] Numerous small skin spines are found under the dorsal fin. [9]
L. americanus. Binomial name. Lophius americanus. Valenciennes, 1837 [2] Lophius americanus is a goosefish in the family Lophiidae, also called all-mouth, American anglerfish, American monkfish, bellows-fish, devil-fish, headfish, molligut, satchel-mouth, or wide-gape. It is native to the eastern coast of North America.
Frogfish. Frogfishes are any member of the anglerfish family Antennariidae, of the order Lophiiformes. Antennariids are known as anglerfish in Australia, where the term "frogfish" refers to members of the unrelated family Batrachoididae. Frogfishes are found in almost all tropical and subtropical oceans and seas around the world, the primary ...