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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] |
Ceratias Uranoscopus
''Ceratias uranoscopus'', the stargazing seadevil, is a species of Marine life, marine Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils. The fish is both bathypelagic and mesopelagic and can typically be found at depths ranging from . It is endemic to tropical waters and can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean, Indian Oceans. Taxonomy ''Ceratias uranoscopus'' was first formally Species description, described in 1877 by the Scottish Canadians, Scottish-Canadian oceanographer John Murray (oceanographer), Sir John Murray with its Type locality (biology), type locality given as the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, between Canary Islands, Canary and Cape Verde islands at 22°18'N, 22°02'W from a depth between . The genus ''Ceratias'' is classified by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World as belonging to the family Ceratiidae in the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish Order (biology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
