Krøyer's deep sea angler fish | |
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Female with a parasitic male on the belly, preparation at the Zoological Museum of Saint Petersburg | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Lophiiformes |
Family: | Ceratiidae |
Genus: | Ceratias |
Species: | C. holboelli
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Binomial name | |
Ceratias holboelli
Krøyer, 1845
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Krøyer's deep sea angler fish (Ceratias holboelli) is a species of fish in the family Ceratiidae, the sea devils. This deep-sea anglerfish is found in all oceans, at depths of 0 to 4,400 m (0 to 14,436 ft), but mainly between 400 and 2,000 m (1,300 and 6,600 ft). [2] Females typically are 77 cm (2.53 ft) long, but can reach 120 cm (3.9 ft). [2] The much smaller males only reach 16 cm (6.3 in) and they are symbiotic, as they attach themselves to a female. [2]
The species' scientific epithet commemorates Carl Peter Holbøll, a Danish civil servant and early explorer of the fauna of Greenland. Several specimens have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales caught in the Azores and in the Antarctic. [3]
Other common names include longray seadevil and northern seadevil. [1]
Krøyer's deep sea angler fish | |
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Female with a parasitic male on the belly, preparation at the Zoological Museum of Saint Petersburg | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Lophiiformes |
Family: | Ceratiidae |
Genus: | Ceratias |
Species: | C. holboelli
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Binomial name | |
Ceratias holboelli
Krøyer, 1845
|
Krøyer's deep sea angler fish (Ceratias holboelli) is a species of fish in the family Ceratiidae, the sea devils. This deep-sea anglerfish is found in all oceans, at depths of 0 to 4,400 m (0 to 14,436 ft), but mainly between 400 and 2,000 m (1,300 and 6,600 ft). [2] Females typically are 77 cm (2.53 ft) long, but can reach 120 cm (3.9 ft). [2] The much smaller males only reach 16 cm (6.3 in) and they are symbiotic, as they attach themselves to a female. [2]
The species' scientific epithet commemorates Carl Peter Holbøll, a Danish civil servant and early explorer of the fauna of Greenland. Several specimens have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales caught in the Azores and in the Antarctic. [3]
Other common names include longray seadevil and northern seadevil. [1]