Biology Encyclopedia	Lophiiformes Author, 3000 “”
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Common Names

Anglerfish.  This group contains various groups of fish known as anglerfishes, anglers, frogfishes, coffinfishes, batfishes, fanfins, seadevils, footballfishes, dreamfishes, and leftvents.

Latin Synonyms

Linnaean Rank

Ancestral Phylogeny and Taxonomy

Lineage

Terrabiota, Cytota, Neomura, Eukaryota, Unikonta, Opisthokonta, Animalia, Metazoa, Eumetazoa, Bilateria, Deuterostomia, Cyrtotreta, Chordata, Notochordata, Vertebrata, Gnathostomata, Teleostomi, Euteleostomi, Actinopterygii, Neopterygii, Halecostomi

Descendant Phylogeny and Taxonomy

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Morphology

Distribution

Ecology

Ethology

Evolution

Development

Ethnobiology

Population

Notes and Comments

References

Literature

Pietsch, T.W. and D.B. Grobecker. 1987. Frogfishes of the world. Systematics, zoogeography, and behavioral ecology. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.

Nelson, Joseph S. 2006.  Fishes of the world.  4th ed.  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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