Cryptopsaras couesii
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Cryptopsaras couesii , drawing from Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876 . |
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Cryptopsaras couesii ( Gr .: "kryptos" = secret, hidden + "psaras" = fisherman + couesii in honor of the ornithologist Elliott Coues ) is a deep-sea frogfish that occurs almost worldwide in all oceans in tropical and subtropical regions. It lives primarily at depths of 500 to 1250 meters, rarely goes to the surface of the sea or to depths of more than 3000 meters.
features
Adult females of Cryptopsaras couesii can reach a maximum length of 44 cm. Your body is plump and flattened on the sides. Free-living dwarf males were found up to a maximum length of 1.05 cm, while those that were firmly attached were found to be a maximum of 7.3 cm long. Characteristic of the females of the species are three oval flesh warts in front of the dorsal fin, a middle large one and a smaller one to the right and left of it. The females' illicium is short and almost completely enclosed by esca tissue. A sting sits on the subopercular . The males are only pigmented on the back, on the gill cover and the tail stalk.
- Fin formula : Dorsal I / 4–5; Anal 0/4.
- Vortex number: 20.
- Branchiostegal rays : 6
swell
- Pietsch, Theodore W. (2005): Ceratiidae at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Cryptopsaras couesii on Fishbase.org (English)
