Fanfin

Fanfins or hairy anglerfish are a family, Caulophrynidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in deep, lightless waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.[1]

Fanfins
Caulophryne pelagica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Lophiiformes
Family:
Caulophrynidae

Regan, 1912
Genera

Caulophryne
Robia

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 their very long dorsal and anal fin rays.

As in other anglerfishes, males are one-tenth the size of females and, after larval and adolescent free-living stages, spend the rest of their lives parasitically attached to a female.[2] The fanfin has a small, spherical body with long protuberances.

References
  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Caulophrynidae" in FishBase. February 2005 version.
  2. Theodore W. Pietsch (2005). "Caulophrynidae". Tree of Life web project. Retrieved 4 April 2006.


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