Caulophrynidae

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Paracanthopterygii
Ordo: Lophiiformes
Subordo: Ogcocephalioidei
Superfamilia: Ceratioidea
Familia: Caulophrynidae
Genera: Caulophryne - Robia

Name

Caulophrynidae

References

* Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471250317.

Links

* Caulophrynidae Report on ITIS

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Fächerflosser
English: Fanfin

Fanfins are a family, Caulophrynidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in deep, lightless waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1]

They are distinguished from other anglerfishes by the lack of the expanded escal bulb — the bioluminescent lure at the end of the illicium — and by the very long dorsal and anal fin rays.

As in other anglerfishes, males are very much smaller than the females and, after a larval and adolescent free-living stage, spend the rest of their life parasitically attached to a female.[2]
Species

There are five species in two genera:

* Genus Caulophryne
o Caulophryne jordani (Fanfin seadevil) Goode & Bean, 1896.
o Caulophryne pelagica (Brauer, 1902).
o Caulophryne pietschi Balushkin & Fedorov, 1985.
o Caulophryne polynema (Hairy angler)Regan, 1930.
* Genus Robia
o Robia legula Pietsch, 1979.

References

1. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Caulophrynidae" in FishBase. February 2005 version.
2. ^ Theodore W. Pietsch (2005). "Caulophrynidae". Tree of Life web project. http://tolweb.org/Caulophrynidae/22025. Retrieved 4 April 2006.