Rod anglers
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Ceratias holboelli , female with dwarf male, specimen in the Museum of Zoology in Saint Petersburg . |
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| Gill , 1861 |
The rod anglers (Ceratiidae) are a family of deep-sea frogfish (Ceratioidei). They live in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian Oceans .
Rod anglers have very small, probably functionless eyes. The mouth is almost vertical. The dorsal fin has four, in rare cases five, soft rays , the anal fin four. In front of the dorsal fin there are three fleshy appendages that were formed from fin rays.
The males live as dwarf males attached to the females. Ceratias holboelli becomes over a meter long.
species
There are four types in two genera :
- Genus Ceratias
- Ceratias holboelli Krøyer , 1845 .
- Ceratias tentaculatus (Norman, 1930) .
- Ceratias uranoscopus Murray, 1877 .
- Genus Cryptopsaras
- Cryptopsaras couesii Gill , 1883 .
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
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