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Published December 31, 2010 | Version v1
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Lophiiformes

Description

ORDER LOPHIIFORMES

Family Lophiidae

Lophius budegassa Spinola, 1807 — Black-bellied anglerfish * Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, 1758 — Anglerfish

Family Chaunacidae

Chaunax pictus Lowe, 1846 — Pink frogmouth Family Ceratiidae

Ceratias holboelli Krøyer, 1845 — Kroyer's deep sea anglerfish

One female of 560 mm TL (Figure 6) caught by the vessel “Ría de Cedeira” on 19th December 2006 at 676 m depth in the north of Galicia (“ As Paredes”: 44º 0 7 N – 08º 07’ W)

Family Linophrynidae

**Lynophryne coronata Parr, 1927 — Deep-sea anglerfish

Not mentioned for Galicia by Cohen in Whithead et al. (1986). Recorded from the Galicia Bank by Bañón et al., (2006): one female of 223 mm TL with an attached parasitic male of 29 mm TL (Figure 7), at 762– 764 m depth.

Notes

Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276366

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lophiiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
order

References

  • Banon, R., Pietsch, T. W. & Pineiro, C-G. (2006) New record of Linophryne coronata, (Lophiiformes, Linophrynidae) from the North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Cybium, 30 (4), 385 - 386.