leftvent
Also known as Linophrynidae
Leftvents seadevils comprise the family Linophrynidae, marine ray-finned fishes within the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
Devil anglers
Family
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderLophiiformes
- FamilyLinophrynidae
Habitatmarine
The body of metamorphosed females is short, more-or-less oval in shape to globular. The length of the head, measured from the tip of the snout to the base of the pectoral fin, is 50–60% SL. The snout is relatively short, usually less than 20% SL. The mouth is large, the opening horizontal or somewhat oblique, the cleft extending past the eye. The oral valve is well developed. The nostrils are set on rounded papillae. The dentition is highly variable among genera: the teeth of Acentrophryne, Borophryne, and Linophryne are long and few, arranged in several oblique longitudinal series; those of Haplophryne and Photocorynus are considerably shorter and more numerous, arranged in several series (for details, see the generic accounts below). The vomer is well toothed in Acentrophryne, Borophryne, and Linophryne, but toothless in Photocorynus and Haplophryne. The first epibranchial is free, not bound to the wall of the pharynx by connective tissue. All four epibranchials are closely bound together by connective tissue. The fourth epibranchial and ceratobranchial are bound to the wall of the pharynx, leaving no opening behind the fourth arch. The proximal one-half of the first ceratobranch
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- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- Description
- Genera
- Fossil record
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Leftvents seadevils comprise the family Linophrynidae, marine ray-finned fishes within the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== The leftvent family, Linophrynidae, was first proposed in 1926 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan as a monotypic family when he was describing specimens of previously unknown species of ceratioid fishes collected from the North Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama from the Danish reaearch ship,Dana. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the Linophrynidae within the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfishes, within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Within the Certioidei this family is generally regarded the most basal.