Hairy angler fish scientific name

An ambush predator with a very long lure that resembles a marine worm. Fantastic footage of Striate Anglerfish spawning. A pair of Striate Anglerfish 'walking' over the seafloor in Indonesia. Known in Australian waters from about Perth, south Western Australia, northwards throughout the Northern Territory, Queensland, and south eastern Victoria. Elsewhere, the species is widespread in all tropical and subtropical seas of the world, except for the eastern Pacific Ocean. Striate Anglerfish live in a range of environments from shallow estuaries to deeper reef areas to depths of about m.

Caulophryne polynema is a species of fish in the family Caulophrynidae , the fanfins. It is known commonly as the hairy fanfin. It occurs off the eastern coast of North America across to Africa and as far north as Iceland. In the Pacific it is known from the waters off of Hawaii and to the western coast of North America. This is a species of anglerfish.

A Linophryne brevibarbata species of anglerfish. That attachment at the rear of her belly is not an appendage. It's a tiny male that has permanently fused to her. Had the pair not been caught, he would have lived the rest of his life like this, supplying sperm and pulling nourishment from her blood. Photo copyright London Natural History Museum.

Get a fresh start. Clive Cookson. Report a mispronounced word. Thirteen years ago the Natural History Museum in London acquired a remarkable fish specimen recently collected off the Cape Verde islands in the tropical Atlantic.