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Melanocetidae
Black seadevils are small, deepsea lophiiform fishes of the family Melanocetidae. The five known species (with only two given common names) are all within the genus ''Melanocetus''. They are found in tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, with one species known only from the Ross Sea. One of several anglerfish families, black seadevils are named for their baleful appearance and typically pitch black skin. The family name Melanocetidae may be translated from the Greek ''melanos'' meaning "black", and ''cetus'' meaning either "whale" or "sea monster". The humpback anglerfish (''Melanocetus johnsonii'') was featured on the August 14, 1995, issue of ''Time'' magazine, becoming something of a flagship species of deepsea fauna. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * '' Melanocetus eustalus'' Pietsch & Van Duzer, 1980 * '' Melanocetus johnsonii'' Günther, 1864 (Humpback anglerfish) * '' Melanocetus murrayi'' Günther, 1887 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanocetus Johnsonii
The humpback anglerfish (''Melanocetus johnsonii'') is a species of black seadevils in the family of Black seadevil, Melanocetidae, which means "black whale" in Greek.Froese, R., Pauly D., Eds. (2015) Melanocetus johnsonii. ''FishBase''. The species is named after James Yate Johnson, the English naturalist who discovered the first specimen in Madeira in 1863.Fitch, J.E., Lavenberg R.J. (1968). ''Deep-water teleostean fishes of California.'' University of California Press, 115. The common names include anglerfish, viperfish and fangtoothfish.Humpback Blackdevil, ''Melanocetus johnsonii'' Gunther, 1864. Australian Museum. Historical background The first specimen of ''M. johnsonii'' was discovered by the English naturalist James Yate ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humpback Anglerfish
The humpback anglerfish (''Melanocetus johnsonii'') is a species of black seadevils in the family of Melanocetidae, which means "black whale" in Greek.Froese, R., Pauly D., Eds. (2015) Melanocetus johnsonii. ''FishBase''. The species is named after James Yate Johnson, the English naturalist who discovered the first specimen in Madeira in 1863.Fitch, J.E., Lavenberg R.J. (1968). ''Deep-water teleostean fishes of California.'' University of California Press, 115. The common names include anglerfish, viperfish and fangtoothfish.Humpback Blackdevil, ''Melanocetus johnsonii'' Gunther, 1864. Australian Museum. Historical background The first specimen of ''M. johnsonii'' was discovered by the English naturalist[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humpback Anglerfish
The humpback anglerfish (''Melanocetus johnsonii'') is a species of black seadevils in the family of Melanocetidae, which means "black whale" in Greek.Froese, R., Pauly D., Eds. (2015) Melanocetus johnsonii. ''FishBase''. The species is named after James Yate Johnson, the English naturalist who discovered the first specimen in Madeira in 1863.Fitch, J.E., Lavenberg R.J. (1968). ''Deep-water teleostean fishes of California.'' University of California Press, 115. The common names include anglerfish, viperfish and fangtoothfish.Humpback Blackdevil, ''Melanocetus johnsonii'' Gunther, 1864. Australian Museum. Historical background The first specimen of ''M. johnsonii'' was discovered by the English naturalist[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanocetus Eustalus
''Melanocetus eustalus'' is a deep sea anglerfish in the family Melanocetidae Black seadevils are small, deepsea lophiiform fishes of the family Melanocetidae. The five known species (with only two given common names) are all within the genus ''Melanocetus''. They are found in tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic, ..., found off the Pacific coast of Mexico at depths down to about . References {{Taxonbar, from=Q1963029 Melanocetidae Deep sea fish Fish described in 1980 Taxa named by Theodore Wells Pietsch III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanocetus Murrayi
''Melanocetus murrayi'', commonly known as Murray's abyssal anglerfish, is a deep sea anglerfish in the family Melanocetidae, found in tropical to temperate parts of the world's oceans at depths down to over . Its length is up to for females and up to for males. Taxonomy ''Melanocetus murrayi'' was first described by the German zoologist Albert Günther in 1887 from material dredged up from the deep on the Challenger expedition of 1872 to 1876, the first scientific attempt to research the ocean depths; it was named in honour of Sir John Murray, a British biologist who took part in the expedition and was one of the founders of the new study of oceanography. Description Like other anglerfish in the genus, the female ''M. murrayi'' has a large oblique mouth, jaws with long depressible fangs, small nostrils raised on a prominence, an illiceum (a long modified dorsal spine used as a lure), and skin without scales. It differs from others in the genus in having the width between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophiiform
The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes (). They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure for other fish. The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater, that dwell in and around the sea. Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfish. In these species, males may be several orders of magnitude smaller than females. Anglerfish occur worldwide. Some are pelagic (dwelling away from the sea floor), while others are benthic (dwelling close to the sea floor). Some live in the deep sea (such as the Ceratiidae), while others on the continental shelf, such as the frogfishes and the Lophiidae (monkfish or goosefish). Pelagic forms are most often laterally compressed, whereas the benth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglerfish
The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes (). They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure for other fish. The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater, that dwell in and around the sea. Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfish. In these species, males may be several orders of magnitude smaller than females. Anglerfish occur worldwide. Some are pelagic (dwelling away from the sea floor), while others are benthic (dwelling close to the sea floor). Some live in the deep sea (such as the Ceratiidae), while others on the continental shelf, such as the frogfishes and the Lophiidae (monkfish or goosefish). Pelagic forms are most often laterally compressed, whereas the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanocetus Niger
''Melanocetus niger'' is a species of black seadevil, a type of anglerfish. They have big mouths, with plenty of long teeth, and numerous fin rays. The fish is bathypelagic and has been found at depths ranging from . It is endemic to the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a .... References Melanocetidae Deep sea fish Fish described in 1925 Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan {{Lophiiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Monster
Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. They can be slimy and scaly and are often pictured threatening ships or spouting jets of water. The definition of a "monster" is subjective; further, some sea monsters may have been based on scientifically accepted creatures, such as whales and types of giant and colossal squid. Sightings and legends Sea monster accounts are found in virtually all cultures that have contact with the sea. For example, Avienius relates of Carthaginian explorer Himilco's voyage "...there monsters of the deep, and beasts swim amid the slow and sluggishly crawling ships." (lines 117–29 of ''Ora Maritima''). Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed to have encountered a lion-like monster with "glaring eyes" on his return voyage after formally claiming St. John's, Newfoundland (1583) for England. Another ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John P
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Wells Pietsch III
Theodore Wells Pietsch III (born March 6, 1945) is an American systematist and evolutionary biologist especially known for his studies of anglerfishes. Pietsch has described 72 species and 14 genera of fishes and published numerous scientific papers focusing on the relationships, evolutionary history, and functional morphology of teleosts, particularly deep-sea taxa. For this body of work, Pietsch was awarded the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award in Systematic Ichthyology by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 2005. Pietsch has spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle as a professor mentoring graduate students, teaching ichthyology to undergraduates, and curating the ichthyology collections of the UW Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. His zoological author abbreviation is Pietsch. See also :Taxa named by Theodore Wells Pietsch III and query for taxa he authored Education Pietsch attended John Adams High School in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
