My awesome anglerfish

• Pylum-Vertebrate
•Superclass-Bony Fish
• Class-Actinopterygii
• Subclass-Neopterygii
• Infraclass-Teleostei
• Order-Lophiformes (Anglerfish)
• Suborder-Ogcocephalioidei (Deep Sea Anglerfish)
• Families-Caulophaynidae, Centrophrynidae, Deratiidae,
Gigantactinidae, Himantolophidae, Linophrynidae, Melanocetidae,
Neoceratiidae, Oneirodidae, Thaumatichthyidae, Chaunicidae,
Ogcocephalidae
• Species-Many species such as Lasiognathus saccostoma,
Chaenophryne melanorhabdus, and Bufoceratias wedli
There are many species of anglerfish which means
that there are many common names of anglerfish.
Some of the names include fanfish, deep-sea
anglerfish, sea devils, double anglers, whipnose
anglers, footballfish, leftvents, devil-anglers,
toothed sea devils, dreamers, wolftrap anglers,
coffin fish, and bat fish
Deep sea anglerfish have a pretty interesting habitat. They
live in an area of the ocean that has been named the
mesopelagic realm which is 200-1,000m deep and the
bathypelagic realm which extends to 6,000m deep. Most
people think that there is no light down in those realms,
however, the very dim amount of light can be seen if the
water is clear.
• Only females have the bioluminescent lures.(Lures that are lit by
means that are natural, in this case bacteria).
• Females have a globular shape (round football like shape) to
remain motionless most of the time.
• The deep sea anglerfish has no scales.
• The actual bioluminescent organ is called the esca.
• Beneath the skin surrounding the esca is a thick layer of
connective tissue, then nerve fibers, then a dark layer
that has a reflective layer inside.
• In some species, the bacteria can flash by turning the
esca. In others, the bacteria flash when supplied with
extra oxygen and fade when the surplus is taken away.
• Linophrynidae (Leftvents) have barbels with tiny esci
inside them. The Latin name actually means “toad that
fishes with a net.
• The deep sea anglerfish has expandable jaws so it can
eat a large, rare meal that may come along.
• They eat all fish they can get, squid, prawns (large
shrimp), and euphausians which are deep-sea relatives of
krill.
• Some anglerfish change the state of their light to make
the bacteria flash or glow brighter than normal with the
use of enzymes and when chromatophores contract.
(Chromatophores are pigment-containing or pigment-
producing cells that can change skin color by expansion
and contraction)
• The males, which are many times smaller than the female, uses his
large sense organs to find a mate.
•The males then hook onto the female with his teeth. His skin fuses
with the females and he starts to develop. His body then
disintegrates and leaves only a lump of organs on the female.
•After the male has developed enough, his attachment to the female
allows the female to lay eggs. The female then releases a hormone
that allows her to self-fertilize her eggs with the males body.
 •The deep sea anglerfish has a thin amount of grimy black skin.
•The fish’s skin is so thin, in fact, that the skin can slip off their
bodies when handled by human hands.
•The skin slides around because they have flabby muscles and weak
skeletons so their skin isn’t attached very well.
•Because their jaws are expandable to eat large prey, their stomach
has to be pretty big to handle that food. That is not true, however.
Their stomach is elastic so it expands when they swallow large prey.
• The only movie I know of that features the deep sea
anglerfish is………
• Disney Pixar’s Finding Nemo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• In the movie, Dory, a blue fish who has a major case of short
term memory loss, is responsible for the safekeeping of a pair
of goggles that will lead Dory and Marlin, a clownfish, to his
son Nemo. Dory drops the goggles which in turn forces them
to travel to a deep sea, pitch-black area to get the goggles
back. They run into a deep sea anglerfish and use his light to
read the goggles, while the anglerfish tries to eat Dory and
Marlin.