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Caulophryne
''Caulophryne'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Caulophrynidae, the fanfins or hairy anglerfishes. These fishes are found throughout the non-polar oceans of the world. Taxonomy ''Caulophryne'' was first proposed as monospecific genus in 1896 by the American ichthyologists George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean when the described ''Caulophryne jordani''. The holotype of ''C. jordani'' was collected from the Gulf Stream off Long Island, New York at 39°27'N, 71°15'W, Albatross station 2747 from a depth between . ''Caulophryne'' and '' Robia'' are the two genera making up the family Caulophrynidae. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the Caulophrynidae within the suborder Ceratioidei of the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Etymology ''Caulophryne'' is a combination of ''caulis'', which mean" stem", an allusion to the stem-like base of the illicium, with ''phryne'', meaning "toad", a suffix commonly used in the names of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulophryne Pelagica
''Caulophryne pelagica'' is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ... Fanfin, Caulophrynidae, the fanfins. This species is a deepwater species which is found in the eastern Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean. Its biology is little known but similar species show extreme sexual dimorphism with the very small males seeking out and attaching themselves to the much larger females and becoming parasites of the females. Taxonomy ''Caulophryne pelagica'' was first formally Species description, described in 1902 as ''Melanocetus pelagicus'' by the German zoologist August Brauer with its Type locality (biology), type locality given as west of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean from Valdivia Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulophryne Jordani
''Caulophryne jordani'', or the fanfin angler, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caulophrynidae, the fanfins. This species is a deepwater species which is found in Oceanic waters around the world. Like other deepwater anglerfishes it shows extreme sexual dimorphism with the males being much smaller than the females and acting as sexual parasites of the females. Taxonomy ''Caulophryne jordani'' was first formally described in 1896 by the American ichthyologists George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean with its type locality given as the Gulf Stream off Long Island, New York at 39°27'N, 71°15'W, Albatross station 2747 from a depth between . When Goode and Bean described the species they placed it in a new monospecific genus, ''Caulophryne'', so this species is the type species of that genus by monotypy. ''Caulophryne'' is one of two genera within the family Caulophrynidae. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the Caulophrynidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caulophryne Bacescui
''Caulophryne bacescui'' of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Caulophrynidae, the fanfins or hairy anglerfishes. It is known from a single specimen collected from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Caulophryne bacescui'' was first formally described in 1982 by the Romanian biologist Alina Mihai-Bardan from a single specimen taken from the Peru Trench in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off western South America. This species is classified within the genus ''Caulophryne'' which is one of two genera within the family Caulophrynidae. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the Caulophrynidae within the suborder Ceratioidei of the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Etymology ''Caulophryne bacescui'' is a species within the genus ''Caulophryne'', this name is a combination of ''caulis'', which mean" stem", an allusion to the stem-like base of the illicium, with ''phryne'', meaning "toad", a suffix commonly used in the names of anglerfish genera. Its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robia
''Robia'' is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caulophrynidae, the fanfins. Its only species is ''Robia legula'' which is known from a single specimen collected in the western central Pacific Ocean where it is found at depths of . Taxonomy ''Robia'' was first proposed as a genus in 1979 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Pietsch from a holotype of ''Robia legula'' collected from the Banda Sea in the western Pacific at 4°56.5'S, 129°59.5'E from a depth between . ''Robia'' is a monotypic genus and is one of the two genera along with ''Caulophryne'', making up the family Caulophrynidae. which the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies within the suborder Ceratioidei of the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Etymology ''Robia'' honors Bruce H. Robison of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, whose nickname was "Robie", and is a possessive recognising his research bathypelagic fish. The specific name ''legula'' means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratioidei
Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes or pelagic anglerfishes, is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes, one of five suborders in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are found in tropical and temperate seas throughout the world, living above the bottom of the 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 tissues fusing with each other. This is the only known natural example of a process called parabiosis. The esca, the defining feature of all anglerfish groups, are bioluminescent in the deep-sea anglerfishes, attracting prey in the vast darkness of the bathypelagic zone which they inhabit. Etymology Ceratioidei takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class (biology), class of Osteichthyes, bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fish fin, fins made of webbings of skin supported by radially extended thin bony spine (zoology), spines called ''lepidotrichia'', as opposed to the bulkier, fleshy lobed fins of the sister taxon, 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 (anatomy), 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 domi ... [...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] |
Charles Tate Regan
Charles Tate Regan (1 February 1878 – 12 January 1943) was a British ichthyology, ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century. He did extensive work on fish classification schemes. Born in Sherborne, Dorset, he was educated at Derby School and Queens' College, Cambridge and in 1901 joined the staff of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum, where he became Keeper of Zoology, and later director of the entire museum, in which role he served from 1927 to 1938. Regan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917. Regan mentored a number of scientists, among them Ethelwynn Trewavas, who continued his work at the British Natural History Museum. Taxon described by him *See :Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan Among the species he described is the Siamese fighting fish (''Betta splendens''). In turn, a number of fish species have been named ''regani'' in his honour: Taxon named in his honor *A Thorny Catfish ''Anadoras regani'' (Stein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C Pelagica
C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''cee'' (pronounced ), plural ''cees''. History "C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name ''gimel''. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was ''gamal''. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)". In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive voicing, so the Greek ' Γ' (Gamma) was adopted into the Etruscan alphabet to represent . Already in the Western Greek alphabet, Gamma first took a '' form in Early Etruscan, then '' in Classical Etru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Bernhard Brauer
August Bernhard Brauer (3 April 186310 September 1917) was a German zoologist. Brauer was born in Oldenburg. He studied natural sciences at the Universities of Bonn, Berlin and Freiburg, obtaining his doctorate in 1895 with a thesis on the ciliate- ''Bursaria truncatella'' titled ''Bursaria truncatella unter Berücksichtigung anderer Heterotrichen und der Vorticellinen''. In 1892 he received his habilitation at the University of Marburg, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer. In 1894–95 he conducted scientific studies in the Seychelles. Along with other scientists, he participated in the " 1898–99 German Deep-Sea Expedition" aboard the steamer ''Valdivia'' under the leadership of Carl Chun (1852–1914). In 1906 he was named director of the Berlin Zoological Museum (nowadays Berlin's Natural History Museum), and later in his career he attained the title of "full professor". Brauer distinguished himself in the field of deep-sea ichthyology, based largely on his experien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
