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Lophiiformes
The anglerfish are ray-finned fish in the order Lophiiformes (). Both the order's common and scientific name comes from the characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified dorsal fin ray acts as a lure for prey (akin to a human angler, and likened to a crest or "'' lophos''"). The modified fin ray, with the very tip being the esca and the length of the structure the illicium, is adapted to attract specific prey items across the families of anglerfish by using different luring methods. Anglerfish occur worldwide. The majority are bottom-dwellers, being demersal fish, while the aberrant deep-sea anglerfish are pelagic, (mostly) living high in the water column. Some live in the deep sea (such as the deep-sea anglerfish and sea toads), while others live in shallower waters, such as the frogfishes and some batfishes. Anglerfish are notable for their sexual dimorphism, which is sometimes extremely pronounced; the males may be several orders of magnitude smaller in mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illicium (fish Anatomy)
The anglerfish are ray-finned fish in the order Lophiiformes (). Both the order's common name, common and scientific name comes from the characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified dorsal Fish fin#Ray-fins, fin ray acts as a Aggressive mimicry#Food as an attractant, lure for prey (akin to a human Angling, angler, and likened to a crest or "''wikt:Lophius, lophos''"). The modified fin ray, with the very tip being the Esca (fish anatomy), esca and the length of the structure the Illicium (fish anatomy), illicium, is adapted to attract specific prey items across the families of anglerfish by using different luring methods. Anglerfish occur worldwide. The majority are bottom-dwellers, being demersal fish, while the aberrant deep-sea anglerfish are Pelagic fish, pelagic, (mostly) living high in the water column. Some live in the Deep-sea fish, deep sea (such as the deep-sea anglerfish and sea toads), while others live in Shallow water marine environment, shallower waters, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep-sea Anglerfish
Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes or pelagic anglerfishes, is a suborder of marine Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes, one of five suborders in the Order (biology), order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are found in tropical and temperate seas throughout the world, living above the Pelagic sediment, bottom of the Deep-sea fish, deep sea, in the pelagic zone. The deep-sea anglerfishes exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism; the males are many times smaller than the females. To reproduce, a male seeks out a female, using his sharp teeth-like denticles to clamp onto the female. The details of this sexual parasitism varies between the species; in a number of species the male permanently becomes part of the female, their Tissue (biology), tissues fusing with each other. This is the only known natural example of a process called parabiosis. The Esca (fish anatomy), esca, the defining feature of all anglerfish groups, are bioluminescent in the deep-sea anglerfishes, attracting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Toad
The sea toads and coffinfishes are a Family (biology), family, the Chaunacidae, of deep-sea Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes belonging to the monotypic suborder Chaunacoidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These are bottom-dwelling fishes found on the continental slopes of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, at depths to at least . There have also been findings of deep-sea anglerfishes off the coasts of Australia and New Caledonia. Other findings suggest some genera of Chaunacidae are found near volcanic slopes encrusted with manganese. Of the two genera in the family, ''Chaunacops'' are typically found at deeper depths than ''Chaunax'', but with considerable overlap between the two genera. Taxonomy The sea toads were first proposed as a separate family, the Chaunacidae, by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1863. Charles Tate Regan placed this family within the division Antennariformes within his suborder Lophiodea when he classified the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogcocephalidae
Ogcocephalidae is a family of anglerfish specifically adapted for a benthic lifestyle of crawling about on the seafloor. Ogcocephalid anglerfish are sometimes referred to as batfishes,Family Ogcocephalidae - Batfishes. FishBase. 2016. deep-sea batfishes, handfishes, and seabats. Australian Museum. They are found in tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide. They are mostly found at depths between , but have been recorded as deep as . A few species live in much shallower coastal waters and, exceptionally, may enter river estuaries. Taxonomy Ogcocephalidae was first proposed as ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antennarius
''Antennarius'' is a genus of anglerfish belonging to the Family (biology), family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in warmer parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Antennarius'' was first proposed as a genus in 1816 by the French naturalist François Marie Daudin with ''Lophius chironectes'' being designated as its type species in 1856 by Pieter Bleeker. ''Lophius chironectes'' was a binomial authored twice, once by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1798 and again by Pierre André Latreille in 1804, it is not clear which is the type species of this genus. ''Catalog of Fishes'' lists Latreille's name as a synonym of ''Painted frogfish, A. pictus'' and states that this taxon is probably the correct type species. Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Antennariinae within the family Antennariidae. However, the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Antennariidae, classifyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaunax Pictus
The pink frogmouth (''Chaunax pictus''), or redeye, pink gaper or uniform gaper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Chaunacidae, the sea toads. This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The pink frogmouth was first formally described in 1846 by the Englaih naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe with its type locality given as Picos, west of Funchal off Madeira. When Lowe described the species he classified it in the new genus '' Chaunax'', making the pink frogmouth the type species of ''Chaunax'' by monotypy. Within the genus ''Chaunax'' this species is placed in the ''Chaunax pictus'' species group. The genus ''Chaunax'' is one of two genera classified by the 5th edition of the ''Fishes of the World'' within the family Chaunacidae, the sea toads. The sea toads are placed within the monotypic suborder Chaunacoidei within the anglerfish order Lophiiformes. Etymology The pink frogmouth is classified in the genus ''Chaunax'' which means "one who g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophius
Members of the genus ''Lophius'', also sometimes called monkfish, fishing-frogs, frog-fish, and sea-devils, are various species of lophiid anglerfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. ''Lophius'' is known as the "monk" or "monkfish" to the North Sea and North Atlantic fishermen, a name which also belongs to '' Squatina squatina'', the angelshark, a type of shark. The North European species is '' Lophius piscatorius'', and the Mediterranean species is '' Lophius budegassa''. Taxonomy ''Lophius'' was first proposed as a genus by Carl Linnaeus when he described ''Lophius piscatorius'' in the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' given as "''in Oceano Europæo''", meaning the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Seas with localities mentioned including Bordeaux, Marseille and Montpellier in France; Genoa, Rome, Naples and Venice in Italy; Lesbos in Greece; and Syria. The genus ''Lophius'' is one of 4 extant genera in the family Lophiidae which the 5th edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratias Holboelli
''Ceratias'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish sometimes referred to as the doublewart- or giant seadevils, belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils. The fishes in this genus are found throughout the world's oceans. Taxonomy ''Ceratias'' was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1845 by the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer when he described ''Ceratias holboelli''. The type locality of ''C. holboelli'' was given as Southern Greenland. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Ceratiidae within the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish order Lophiiformes. Within the Ceratioidei this family is a sister taxon to the Centrophrynidae. Etymology ''Ceratias'' means "horn bearer", an allusion to the esca sticking up from the snout. Species There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * '' Ceratias holboelli'' Krøyer, 1845 (Krøyer's deep sea angler fish) * '' Ceratias tentaculatus'' Norman, 1930 (sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogcocephalus Vespertilio
''Ogcocephalus vespertilio'', the Brazilian batfish or seadevil, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes. This species is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. The Brazilian batfish is the type species of the genus '' Ogcocephalus''. Nomenclature ''Ogcocephalus vespertilio'' is the type species of the genus ''Ogcocephalus'', the name of which is a combination of ''ogkos'', which means "hook", and ''cephalus'', meaning "head", an allusion to the pointed rostrum on the snout of the type species. The specific name ''vespertilio'', means "bat", this probably goes back to the name "Sea Bat", a common name probably first mentioned in Patrick Browne;s ''Civil and Natural History of Jamaica'' published in 1756, which said "by the extension of its side-fins and its small ventrals, represents a bat in some measure, whence its name". Taxonomy ''Ogcocephalus vespertilio'' was first formally described as ''Lophius vespertilio'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophius Piscatorius
''Lophius piscatorius'', commonly known as the anglerfish, frog fish, fishing frog, monk, European angler, common monkfish, sea devil, or devil fish, is a monkfish in the family Lophiidae. It is found in coastal waters of the northeast Atlantic, from the Barents Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Within some of its range, including the Irish Sea, this species comprises a significant commercial fishery. Taxonomy ''Lophius piscatorius'' was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' given as "''in Oceano Europæo''", meaning the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Seas with localities mentioned including Bordeaux, Marseille and Montpellier in France; Genoa, Rome, Naples and Venice in Italy; Lesbos in Greece; and Syria. When Linnaeus described this species he created a new genus, '' Lophius''. In 1883, David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert designated this species as the type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray-finned Fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of skin supported by radially extended thin bony spines called '' lepidotrichia'', as opposed to the bulkier, fleshy lobed fins of the sister clade Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish). Resembling folding fans, the actinopterygian fins can easily change shape and wetted area, providing superior thrust-to-weight ratios per movement compared to sarcopterygian and chondrichthyian fins. The fin rays attach directly to the proximal or basal skeletal elements, the radials, which represent the articulation between these fins and the internal skeleton (e.g., pelvic and pectoral girdles). The vast majority of actinopterygians are teleosts. By species count, they dominate the subphylum Vertebrata, and constitute nearly 99% of the over 30,000 extant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
