anglerfish
RMID:Image ID:B607P0
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Contributor:
bilwissedition Ltd. & Co. KG / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
B607P0File size:
54.1 MB (2.1 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5315 x 3558 px | 45 x 30.1 cm | 17.7 x 11.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
23 November 2008Photographer:
bilwisseditionMore information:
Goosefishes are a family Lophiidae of anglerfishes found in the Arctic Atlantic Indian and Pacific Oceans where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and continental slope at depths in excess of 1 000 m the first spine of the spinous dorsal fin has been modified as an angling apparatus illicium that bears a bulb like or fleshy lure esca The angling apparatus is located at the tip of the snout just above the mouth and is used to attract prey