Thaumatichthyidae
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Lasiognathus amphirhamphus |
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| Smith & Radcliffe , 1912 |
Drawing of the holotype of Thaumatichthys pagidostomus
The Thaumatichthyidae are a family of deep-sea frogfish (Ceratioidei). The fish are only known from catching around 60 individual specimens in the Atlantic and Pacific . Almost nothing is known about the way of life.
features
Adult females of the Thaumatichthyidae differ from all other deep-sea anglerfish by their enormously enlarged upper jaw, which protrudes far beyond the lower jaw and has long teeth. The fish are 7.5 to 15.5 inches long. Males and larvae are only known from the genus Thaumatichthys .
Systematics
There are nine species in two genera:
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Lasiognathus , live bathypelagically at depths between 1000 and 4000 meters.
- Lasiognathus amphirhamphus Pietsch , 2005 .
- Lasiognathus beebei Regan & Trewavas , 1932 .
- Lasiognathus dinema Pietsch & Sutton, 2015 .
- Lasiognathus intermedius Bertelsen & Pietsch, 1996 .
- Lasiognathus saccostoma Regan, 1925 .
- Lasiognathus waltoni Nolan & Rosenblatt, 1975 .
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Thaumatichthys , live bathydemersal on the ocean floor at depths between 1400 and 3500 meters.
- Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun, 1953) .
- Thaumatichthys binghami Parr, 1927 .
- Thaumatichthys pagidostomus Smith & Radcliffe, 1912 .
swell
- Kurt Fiedler, Textbook of Special Zoology, Volume II, Part 2: Fish , Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena, 1991, ISBN 3-334-00339-6 .
- Joseph S. Nelson , Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
Commons : Thaumatichthyidae - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Thaumatichthyidae on Fishbase.org (English)
- Theodore W. Pietsch: Thaumatichthyidae Tree of Life Project