''Melanocetus rossi'' is a species of

black seadevil 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, ...

, 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 mesopelagic; the only example collected by humans was found in the Ross Sea at a depth of .

References

Melanocetidae Deep sea fish Fish described in 1981 {{Lophiiformes-stub