English: Anglerfish
Temporal range: 130–0 Ma.
Members: 118 families
ZoologyFood: characteristic mode of predation with a modified luminescent fin ray, the esca or illicium, acts as a lure for other fish; luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria.
Reproduction: extreme sexual dimorphism; sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female.
Region: worldwide.
Habitat: pelagic, dwelling away from the sea floor; some are benthic, dwelling close to the sea floor; some live in the deep sea, or on the continental shelf.
Form: laterally compressed, in pelagic fish; extremely dorsoventrally compressed, often with large upward-pointing mouths, in benthic fish.
FamiliesSuborder Lophoiodei
• Lophiidae: Goosefishes, Monkfishes.
Suborder Antennarioidei
• Antennariidae: Frogfishes.
• Tetrabrachiidae: Four-armed frogfishes.
• Brachionichthyidae: Handfishes.
• Lophichthyidae: Boschma's frogfish.
Suborder Chaunacoidei
• Chaunacidae: Sea toads.
Suborder Ogcocephaloidei
• Ogcocephalidae: Batfishes.
Suborder Ceratioidei
• Centrophrynidae: Prickly seadevils.
• Ceratiidae: Warty seadevils.
• Himantolophidae: Footballfishes.
• Diceratiidae: Doublespine seadevils.
• Melanocetidae: Black seadevils.
• Thaumatichthyidae: Wolf-trap seadevils.
• Oneirodidae: Dreamers.
• Caulophrynidae: Fanfin seadevils.
• Neoceratiidae: Needlebeard seadevil.
• Gigantactinidae: Whipnose seadevils.
• Linophrynidae: Leftvent seadevils.
Genera
Suborder Lophoiodei
• Lophiidae diepzeeduivels: Lophiodes, Lophiomus, Lophius, Sladenia
Suborder Antennarioidei
• Antennariidae: Allenichthys, Antennarius, Antennatus, Echinophryne, Histiophryne, Histrio, Kuiterichthys, Lophiocharon, Nudiantennarius, Phyllophryne, Rhycherus, Tathicarpus
• Brachionichthyidae: Brachionichthys, Brachiopsilus, Pezichthys, Sympterichthys, Thymichthys
• Tetrabrachiidae: Dibrachichthys, Tetrabrachium
• Lophichthyidae: Lophichthys
Suborder Chaunacoidei
• Chaunacidae: Chaunacops, Chaunax
Suborder Ogcocephaloidei
• Ogcocephalidae: Coelophrys, Dibranchus, Halicmetus, Halieutaea, Halieutichthys, Halieutopsis, Malthopsis, Ogcocephalus, Solocisquama, Zalieutes
Suborder Ceratioidei
• Centrophrynidae: Centrophryne
• Ceratiidae: Ceratias, Cryptopsaras
• Caulophrynidae: Caulophryne, Robia
• Diceratiidae: Bufoceratias, Diceratias
• Gigantactinidae: Gigantactis, Rhynchactis
• Himantolophidae
• Linophrynidae: Acentrophryne, Borophryne, Haplophryne, Linophryne, Photocorynuss, Himantolophus
• Melanocetidae: Melanocetus
• Neoceratiidae: Neoceratias
• Oneirodidae: Bertella, Chaenophryne, Chirophryne, Ctenochirichthys, Danaphryne, Dermatias, Dolopichthys, Leptacanthichthys, Lophodolos, Microlophichthys, Oneirodes, Pentherichthys, Phyllorhinichthys, Puck, Spiniphryne, Tyrannophryne
• Thaumatichthyidae: Lasiognathus, Thaumatichthys