Goosefish

Taxobox
name = Goosefishes

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Angler, "Lophius piscatorius"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Lophiiformes
familia = Lophiidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Lophiodes" "Lophiomus" "Lophius" "Sladenia" See text for species.

Goosefishes are a family, Lophiidae, of anglerfishes. They are 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. [FishBase family | family = Lophiidae | year = 2006 | month = February]

Like most other anglerfishes, they have a very large head with a large mouth that bears long, sharp, recurved teeth. Also like other anglerfishes, 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. Lophiid anglerfishes also have two or three other dorsal fin spines located more posteriorly on the head, and a separate spinous dorsal fin with one to three spines located more posteriorly on the body just in front of the soft dorsal fin. In the more primitive anglerfish genera ("Sladenia" and "Lophiodes") the gill opening extends partially in front of the elongated pectoral fin base. In the derived lophiid genera ("Lophiomus" and "Lophius"), and all other anglerfishes, the gill opening does not extend in front of the pectoral fin base. Several of the large (up to 1.2 m) species in the genus "Lophius", commonly known as monkfishes in northern Europe, are important commercially fished species. [cite web | url = http://tolweb.org/Lophiidae/21990 | title = Lophiidae | author = John H. Caruso | publisher = Tree of Life web project | year = 2005 | accessdaymonth = 4 April | accessyear = 2006] The liver of goosefishes, known as "ankimo", is considered a delicacy in Japan.

pecies

There are 25 species in four genera:
* Genus "Lophiodes"
** "Lophiodes abdituspinus" Ni, Wu & Li, 1990.
** "Lophiodes beroe" Caruso, 1981.
** "Lophiodes bruchius" Caruso, 1981.
** Spottedtail angler, "Lophiodes caulinaris" (Garman, 1899).
** "Lophiodes fimbriatus" Saruwatari & Mochizuki, 1985.
** "Lophiodes gracilimanus" (Alcock, 1899).
** "Lophiodes infrabrunneus" Smith & Radcliffe, 1912.
** Natal angler, "Lophiodes insidiator" (Regan, 1921).
** Longspine African angler, "Lophiodes kempi" (Norman, 1935).
** "Lophiodes miacanthus" (Gilbert, 1905).
** "Lophiodes monodi" (Le Danois, 1971).
** Smooth angler, "Lophiodes mutilus" (Alcock, 1894).
** Goosefish, "Lophiodes naresi" (Günther, 1880).
** Reticulated goosefish, "Lophiodes reticulatus" Caruso & Suttkus, 1979.
** Threadfin angler, "Lophiodes spilurus" (Garman, 1899).
* Genus "Lophiomus"
** Blackmouth angler, "Lophiomus setigerus" (Vahl, 1797).
* Genus "Lophius"
** American angler, "Lophius americanus" Valenciennes, 1837.
** Black-bellied angler, "Lophius budegassa" Spinola, 1807.
** Blackfin goosefish, "Lophius gastrophysus" Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915.
** "Lophius litulon" (Jordan, 1902).
** Angler, "Lophius piscatorius" Linnaeus, 1758.
** Shortspine African angler, "Lophius vaillanti" Regan, 1903.
** Cape monk, "Lophius vomerinus" Valenciennes, 1837.
* Genus "Sladenia"
** "Sladenia gardineri" Regan, 1908.
** "Sladenia remiger" Smith & Radcliffe, 1912 Celebes monkfish.
** "Sladenia shaefersi" Caruso & Bullis, 1976.

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