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Goosefish
Goosefishes, sometimes called anglers or monkfishes, are a Family (biology), family, the Lophiidae, of marine Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes belonging to the Order (biology), order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. The family includes 30 recognized species. These fishes are found in all the world's oceans except for the Antarctic Ocean. Taxonomy The goosefish family, Lophiidae, was first proposed as a genus in 1810 by the French polymath and naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. The Lophiidae is the only family in the Monotypic taxon, monotypic suborder Lophioidei, this is one of 5 suborders of the Lophiiformes. The Lophioidei is considered to be the most Basal (phylogenetics), basal of the suborders in the order. Etymology The goosefish family, Lophiidae, takes its name from its type genus, ''Lophius''. ''Lophius'' means "mane" and is presumably a reference to the first 3 spines of the first dorsal fin which are tentacle like, with 3 smaller spines behind them. Genera The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophiomus Setigerus
''Lophiomus'' is a monospecific genus of marine Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family, Lophiidae, the goose fishes, monkfishes or anglers. The only species in the genus is ''Lophiomus setigerus'', the blackmouth angler, blackmouth goosefish, broadheaded angler or broadhead goosefish. This fish is found in the Indo-Pacific. Taxonomy ''Lophiomus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1883 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Lophius setigerus'' as its only species. ''Lophius setigerus'' was first formally Species description, described in 1797 by the Danish-Norwegian botanist, herbalist and zoologist Martin Vahl with its Type locality (biology), type locality given as "China, western Pacific Ocean". The genus ''Lophiodes'' is one of 4 extant genera in the family Lophiidae which the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies in the monotypic suborder Lophioidei with the order Lophiiformes. Within the Lophiidae ''Lophiomus'' is most clos ... [...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] |
Sladenia (fish)
''Sladenia'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lophiidae, which includes the goosefishes, monkfishes and anglers. These are deepwater anglers found in theIndian Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Sladenia'' was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1908 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan when he described the new species ''Sladenia gardineri''. ''S. gardineri'' had a type locality of Salomon Atoll in the Chagos Archipelago of the Indian Ocean. The genus ''Sladenia'' is one of 4 extant genera in the family Lophiidae which the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies in the monotypic suborder Lophioidei with the order Lophiiformes. Within the Lophiidae, ''Sladenia'' is regarded as the most basal taxon and is the sister group to the other three genera, with ''Lophiodes'' being sister group to the clade including ''Lophiomus'' and ''Lophius''. Etymology ''Sladenia'' was named for Percy Sladen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophius Brachysomus
''Caruso brachysomus'' is an extinct species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goosefishes, monkfishes and anglers, within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. It was described by Louis Agassiz in 1835 from the Monte Bolca locality. It became extinct during the middle Eocene (lowermost Lutetian). Species known from three or four individuals. Habitat of this species described as place in a tropical or subtropical, moderately deep basin like a coastal lagoon in inner continental shelf regions of the central Tethys Sea, with reduced hydrodynamic energy and episodic anoxic conditions, with soft mud or sand bottoms, much like extant members of the family. Together with '' Sharfia mirabilis'' this species is one of the oldest member of the family Lophiidae known to date. In 2012 the new genus ''Caruso'' was proposed for this species, and Caruso was resolved, in a phylogenetic analysis, to be a most closely related to the extant '' Sladenia'', and '' ... [...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] |
Sharfia Mirabilis
''Sharfia mirabilis'' is an extinct species of anglerfish in the family Lophiidae. It was discovered in 2011 during a review of fossil material at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. The fossil material was collected from the Monte Bolca ''Lagerstätte'', one of the earliest known Eocene fossil sites. The fossil material was originally identified as ''Lophius brachysomus''. The fish lived around 50 million years ago during the Ypresian stage, making it the oldest lophiid found to date based on articulated skeletal remains. It has several features that distinguish it from other lophiids, particularly its opercular bones. It probably inhabited the muddy and sandy bottoms of the inner Tethys Ocean The Tethys Ocean ( ; ), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era. It was the predecessor to the modern Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Eurasia .... References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Fedorovich Bannikov
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Charles Henry Gilbert
Charles Henry Gilbert (December 5, 1859 in Rockford, Illinois – April 20, 1928 in Palo Alto, California) was a pioneer ichthyologist and Fisheries science, fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species. Later he became an expert on Pacific salmon and was a noted conservation movement, conservationist of the Pacific Northwest. He is considered by many as the intellectual founder of American fisheries biology. He was one of the 22 "pioneer professors" (founding faculty) of Stanford University. Early life and education Born in Rockford, Illinois, Gilbert spent his early years in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he came under the influence of his high school teacher, David Starr Jordan (1851‒1931). When Jordan became Professor of Natural History at Butler University in Indianapolis, Gilbert followed and received his B.A. degree in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
