''Lasiognathus amphirhamphus'' is a species of
wolftrap angler
Thaumatichthyidae, the wolftrap anglers, is a small family of deep-sea anglerfishes, containing two genera
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found in the
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in the east-central
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
where it occurs at a depth of from . The females of this species grow to a length of
SL. This species is characterized by having only two (as opposed to three) bony hooks on its esca, which are lightly pigmented. The distal escal appendage is elongated and cylindrical with a long, compressed prolongation at the tip as in ''
L. saccostoma''. The prolongation has six tiny filaments at the tip and no lateral serrations. The
posterior escal appendage is broad and laterally compressed. Its species name is from the
Greek for "double hook", referring to its escal hooks.
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Thaumatichthyidae
Taxa named by Theodore Wells Pietsch III
Fish described in 2005
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