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Frogfish
Frogfishes are any member of the anglerfish family Antennariidae, of the order Lophiiformes. Antennariids are known as anglerfish in Australia, where the term "frogfish" refers to members of the unrelated family Batrachoididae. Frogfishes are found in almost all tropical and subtropical oceans and seas around the world, the primary exception being the Mediterranean Sea. Frogfishes are small, short and stocky, and sometimes covered in spinules and other appendages to aid in camouflage. The camouflage aids in protection from predators and enables them to lure prey. Many species can change colour; some are covered with other organisms, such as algae or hydrozoa. In keeping with this camouflage, frogfishes typically move slowly, lying in wait for prey, and then striking extremely rapidly, in as little as 6 milliseconds. Few traces of frogfishes remain in the fossil record, though ''Antennarius monodi'' is known from the Miocene of Algeria and ''Eophryne barbuttii'' is known from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Striated Frogfish
The striated frogfish or hairy frogfish (''Antennarius striatus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. This species is found in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The striated frogfish was first formally described in 1794 as ''Lophius striatus'' by the English biologist George Shaw with its type locality given as Tahiti in the Society Islands. Within the genus '' Antennarius'', this species belongs to the ''striatus'' species group. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the genus ''Antennarius'' in the family Antennariidae within the suborder Antennarioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Etymology The striated frogfish has the genus name ''Antennarius'' (which adds ''ius'' after antenna), an allusion to its first dorsal spine being adapted into a tentacle on the snout used as a lure to attract prey. The specific name ''striatus'' (meaning "striped" or "streaked") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglerfish
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] |
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] |
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] |
Theodore Wells Pietsch III
Theodore Wells Pietsch III (born March 6, 1945) is an American systematist and evolutionary biologist especially known for his studies of anglerfishes. Pietsch has described 72 species and 14 genera of fishes and published numerous scientific papers focusing on the relationships, evolutionary history, and functional morphology of teleosts, particularly deep-sea taxa. For this body of work, Pietsch was awarded the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award in Systematic Ichthyology by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 2005. Pietsch has spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle as a professor mentoring graduate students, teaching ichthyology to undergraduates, and curating the ichthyology collections of the UW Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. His zoological author abbreviation is Pietsch. Education Pietsch attended John Adams High School in Indiana. After a B.A. in zoology at the University of Michigan he did a M.S. and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antennarioidei
Antennarioidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Taxonomy Antennarioidei was first proposed as a taxonomic grouping in 1912 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this taxon as one of the five suborders in the order Lophiiformes. It and the suborders Chaunacoidei, Ogcocephaloidei, and Ceratioidei, are more derived than their basal sister group the Lophioidei. In some phylogenies the suborder Antennarioidei is the most basal of the Lophiiformes suborders other than Lophioidei. The relationships of the suborders within Lophiiformes as set out in Pietsch and Grobecker's 1987 ''Frogfishes of the world: systematics, zoogeography, and behavioral ecology'' is shown below. Etymology Antennarioidei is derived from ''Antennarius'', the type genus of the family Antennaridae. ''Antennarius'' suffixes ''-ius'' to antenna, an allusion to first dorsal spine be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetrabrachiidae
Tetrabrachiidae, or the four-armed frogfishes or doublefin frogfishes, is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Antennarioidei in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are found in relatively shallow waters of the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Tetrabrachiidae was first proposed as a subfamily, the Tetrabrachiinae, of the family Antennariidae in 1912 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan with only a single genus included, ''Tetrabrachium'', a monospecific genus which had been proposed by Albert Günther in 1880. In 2009 a second monospecific genus, '' Dibrachichthys'', was added to the family when it was described by Theodore Wells Pietsch III, Jeffery W. Johnson and Rachel J. Arnold. The Tetrabrachiidae is classified within the suborder Antennarioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. This family is regarded, with its sister taxon the Antennariidae, as the most derived clade wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antipredator Adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist Predation, prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators. Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptations have evolved for every stage of this struggle, namely by avoiding detection, warding off attack, fighting back, or escaping when caught. The first line of defence consists in avoiding detection, through mechanisms such as camouflage, Masquerade (biology), masquerade, apostatic selection, living underground, or nocturnality. Alternatively, prey animals may ward off attack, whether by advertising the presence of strong defences in aposematism, by mimicry, mimicking animals which do possess such defences, by deimatic behaviour, startling the attacker, by signalling theory, signalling to the predator that pursuit is not worthwhile, by distraction display, distraction, by using defensive structures such as spines, and by social animal, living in a group. Members of groups are at selfish herd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthelf Fischer Von Waldheim
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (; 13 October 1771 – 18 October 1853) was a Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist. Fischer was born as Gotthilf Fischer in Waldheim, Saxony, the son of a linen weaver. He studied medicine at Leipzig. He travelled to Vienna and Paris with his friend Alexander von Humboldt and studied under Georges Cuvier. He took up a professorship at Mainz, and then in 1804, became Professor of Natural History and Director of the Demidov Natural History Museum at the Moscow University. In August 1805, he founded the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Fischer was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1812 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1818. Fischer was mainly engaged in the classification of invertebrates, the result of which was his ''Entomographia Imperii Rossici'' (1820–1851). He also spent time studying fossils from the area around Moscow. Due to his work stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. He was the first president of the Dexter School in 1926. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Life and career Barbour, the eldest of four brothers, was born in 1884 to Colonel William Barbour, and his wife, Julia Adelaide Sprague. Colonel Barbour was founder and president of The Linen Thread Company, Inc., a successful thread manufacturing enterprise having much business in the United States, Ireland, and Scotland. Although born on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where the family was spending the summer, Barbour grew up in Monmouth, New Jersey, where one of his younger brothers, William Warren Barbour, entered the political arena, eventually serving as U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 to 1943. At age fifteen, Thomas Barbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin (; 29 August 1776 in Paris – 30 November 1803 in Paris) was a French zoologist. Biography With legs paralyzed by childhood disease, he studied physics and natural history but ended up being devoted to the latter. Daudin wrote ' (Complete and Elementary Treatise of Ornithology) in 1799–1800. It was one of the first modern handbooks of ornithology, combining Linnean taxonomy, Linnean binomial nomenclature with the anatomical and physiological descriptions of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Buffon. While an excellent beginning, it was never completed. In 1800, he also published ''Recueil de mémoires et de notes sur des espèces inédites ou peu connues de mollusques, de vers et de zoophytes'' (Collection of memories and notes on new or little-known species of molluscs, worms and zoophytes). Daudin found his greatest success in herpetology. He published ''Histoire naturelle des reinettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds'' (Natural history of tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
