Male Anglerfish #1
by Danté Fenolio
Title
Male Anglerfish #1
Artist
Danté Fenolio
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Anglerfish of the family Melanocetidae are sexually dimorphic. Females are the sex that most people would recognize as deep sea fish, with their glowing lures at the ends of long "fishing rods" extending from the forehead. Many species also have long teeth and a bulbous body. Male Melanocetus, on the other hand, are small fish (usually about 2.5cm (1 inch) or smaller). Males don't have the big teeth or the glowing lures. They have a well-developed sense of smell and they spend the first part of their lives searching the black ocean depths for a female of their own species. Males of this family are not parasitic on females and feed on small invertebrates and vertebrates. This individual was trawled up in the Gulf of Mexico, 2015.
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October 8th, 2015
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