Theodore W. Pietsch;Tracey T. Sutton
Lasiognathus
Sign in to saveLasiognathus, the wolftrap anglerfish, is a genus of deep-sea anglerfish in the family Oneirodidae, with six species known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderLophiiformes
- FamilyThaumatichthyidae
Lasiognathus beebei Lasiognathus saccostoma Ласиогнаты (лат. Lasiognathus) — род глубоководных лучепёрых рыб семейства тауматихтовых. Насчитывает 5 видов. Ласиогнаты обитают в Атлантическом и Тихом океанах на глубине 4 километра. Об этих рыбах известно крайне мало, до сих пор не было выловлено ни одного самца Lasiognathus.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- Family
- Thaumatichthyidae
- Collections
- UWFC, SIO, ZMUC
- Recorded in
- Canada
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- Parent taxon
- Thaumatichthyidae
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- L amphirhamphus.jpg
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- Lasiognathus
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- Category:Lasiognathus
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Systematics
- Species
- Distribution and habitat
- Biology and ecology
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Lasiognathus, the wolftrap anglerfish, is a genus of deep-sea anglerfish in the family Oneirodidae, with six species known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
It is distinct from other anglerfish for an enormous upper jaw with premaxillaries that can be folded down to enclose the much shorter lower jaw. Its lure apparatus appears to consist of a "complete" fishing rod; the projecting basal bone or pteropterygium being the rod itself; the illicium, a modified dorsal fin ray) being the fishing line; the bioluminescent esca as bait; and hook-like enlarged dermal denticles on the esca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lasiognathus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.