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Kingdom
  
Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Family

Scientific name
  
Diceratiidae

Higher classification
  
Anglerfish

Order
  
Anglerfish

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Similar
  
Horned lantern fish, Toothed seadevil, Anglerfish, Thaumatichthyidae, Whipnose angler

Double anglers are a family, Diceratiidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in deep, lightless waters of the Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

They are easily distinguished from other anglerfishes by their possession of a second light-bearing dorsal fin spine immediately behind the illicium (the bioluminescent lure present in other anglerfishes).

As in other anglerfishes, the male is very much smaller than the female, and after a larval and adolescent free-living stage, spends the rest of his life parasitically attached to a female.

Species in this family are known almost entirely from adolescent females; only two larvae, one adult female, and one adult male have been found.

The first specimen of the two-rod anglerfish (first called Ceratias bispinosus) was collected during the expedition of the HMS Challenger during 1873–1876. It was first described by Albert Günther in 1887 in volume 22 of "Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of ADD"

Species

The six species in two genera are:

  • Genus Bufoceratias
  • Bufoceratias shaoi Pietsch, Ho & Chen, 2004
  • Bufoceratias thele Uwate, 1979
  • Bufoceratias wedli Pietschmann, 1926
  • Genus Diceratias
  • Diceratias bispinosus Günther, 1887 (Two-rod anglerfish)
  • Diceratias pileatus Uwate, 1979
  • Diceratias trilobus Balushkin & Fedorov, 1986
  • References

    Double angler Wikipedia