Prickly anglerfish
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Prickly anglerfish
| Prickly anglerfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Himantolophidae |
| Genus: | Himantolophus |
| Species: | H. appelii |
| Binomial name | |
| Himantolophus appelii (F. E. Clarke, 1878) |
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The prickly anglerfish, Himantolophus appelii, is a footballfish of the family Himantolophidae, found around the world in the southern oceans (apart from eastern Pacific), in deep water. Its length is up to 40 cm (16 in). It is a mesopelagic species.
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Himantolophus appelii" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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