Fanfin
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| Fanfins | |
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| Caulophryne sp. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Caulophrynidae |
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Caulophryne |
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Fanfins are a family, Caulophrynidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in deep, lightless waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1]
They are distinguished from other anglerfishes by the lack of the expanded escal bulb — the bioluminescent lure at the end of the illicium — and by the very long dorsal and anal fin rays.
As in other anglerfishes, males are very much smaller than the females and, after a larval and adolescent free-living stage, spend the rest of their life parasitically attached to a female.[2]
[edit] Species
There are five species in two genera:
- Genus Caulophryne
- Caulophryne jordani (Fanfin seadevil) Goode & Bean, 1896.
- Caulophryne pelagica (Brauer, 1902).
- Caulophryne pietschi Balushkin & Fedorov, 1985.
- Caulophryne polynema (Hairy angler)Regan, 1930.
- Genus Robia
- Robia legula Pietsch, 1979.
[edit] References
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Caulophrynidae" in FishBase. February 2005 version.
- ^ Theodore W. Pietsch (2005). "Caulophrynidae". Tree of Life web project. http://tolweb.org/Caulophrynidae/22025. Retrieved 4 April 2006.
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