樹鬚魚

Illuminated netdevil

SPECIES

1. KingdomAnimalia
2. PhylumChordata
3. ClassTeleostei
4. OrderLophiiformes
5. FamilyLinophrynidae

Habitatmarine

Observations1

Observations recorded130

Body proportions, spines of head, and tooth pattern similar to those of other specimens of congeners of comparable sizes: dorsal profile of frontals angular without spine; number of teeth increasing from a few rudiments to about 20 in each premaxilla and 15 in each dentary, with maximum relative length of longest tooth 24% SL; dorsal-fin rays 3; anal-fin rays 3; pectoral-fin rays 15–17.Length of illicium of metamorphosed specimens 14–28.5% SL; length of distal escal appendage increasing from less than 10% SL in specimens less than 45 mm to 15% SL in 49-mm holotype, remarkably long, 57% SL, in 77-mm ripe female; a proximal pair of lateral escal branches appearing as more-or-less distinct rounded swellings in specimens of less than 40 mm, in which small secondary branches, when present, are also incompletely developed appearing as tiny papillae; 77-mm ripe specimen with about 10 pairs of filamentous secondary branches and some on each distal tip of large proximal pair; small posterior escal appendage papilliform or pointed, compressed in some specimens, distally fringed in the ripe female.Barbels very similar in all specimens: an anterior pair of primary branches, each divided near b