Krøyer's deep sea angler fish (''Ceratias holboelli'') is a species of fish in the family
Ceratiidae
Sea devils are the family of deep-sea anglerfish known as the Ceratiidae, from the Greek ''keras'', "horn", referring to the bioluminescent lure that projects from the fishes' forehead.
They are among the most widespread of the anglerfishes, f ...
, the sea devils. This deep-sea anglerfish is found in all oceans, at depths of , but mainly between .
Females typically are long, but can reach .
[ The much smaller males only reach and they are ]symbiotic
Symbiosis (from Greek , , "living together", from , , "together", and , bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasit ...
, as they attach themselves to a female.[
The species' scientific epithet commemorates ]Carl Peter Holbøll
Carl Peter Holbøll (1795–1856) was an officer in the Danish Royal Navy, Greenland colonial officer and explorer of the Greenlandic fauna.
Holbøll served as Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in North Greenland (1825–1828), then Inspec ...
, a Danish
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
civil servant and early explorer of the fauna
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of Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...
. Several specimens have been found in the stomachs of sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot (''Physeter macrocephalus'') is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus ''Physeter'' and one of three extant species in the sperm whale famil ...
s caught in the Azores
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and in the Antarctic
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.[CLARKE, R., 1956. "Sperm whales of the Azores". ''Discovery Reports'', 28: 237-298, pis I-II.]
Other common names include longray seadevil and northern seadevil.
References
Further reading
* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)
Ceratiidae
Deep sea fish
Bioluminescent fish
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