''Caulophryne jordani'', commonly known as the fanfin angler, is a species of fanfin, a type of

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 ...

. The fish is primarily found in the

bathyal zone The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone (from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of below the ocean surface. It lies between the mesopelagic above, and the abyssopelagic below. The bathypelagi ...

at depths ranging from . It has many unusual tentacles with lights attached. In 2016, the reproduction of this species was observed and captured on video at around deep in waters around the

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. This was the first ever recorded video of a sexually united pair of deep sea anglerfish.

References

Caulophrynidae Deep sea fish Fish described in 1896 Taxa named by George Brown Goode Taxa named by Tarleton Hoffman Bean {{Lophiiformes-stub