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Lophiiformes

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Description

The anglerfish is a fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes. It is a bony fish named for its characteristic mode of predation, in which a fleshy growth from the fish's head (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure towards other fish.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophiiformes, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1305	https://www.gbif.org/species/1305
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35691	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35691

Rank

order

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Lophiiformes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Lophiiformes

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Percomorpharia
order	Lophiiformes

Common Name

anglerfish

Scientific Name

Lophiiformes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated without evidence	Purdy et al., 2001
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Paracanthopterygii	stated without evidence	Nelson, 2006
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Carnevale et al., 2008
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Paracanthopterygii	stated without evidence	Long, 2011
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Percomorpharia	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Paracanthopterygii	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014
Lophiiformes	order	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Carnevale and Godfrey, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

46 (58%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile

Diet

carnivore

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Common Name(s)

Anglerfish, Marulkartade Fiskar, Vinarmigen, アンコウ, Anglerfishes, Baudroies

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophiiformes

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Antennarioidei suborder	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Ceratioidei suborder	listed (PBDB)		7	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Chaunacoidei suborder	listed (PBDB)		3	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Lophioidei suborder	listed (PBDB)		25	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ogcocephaloidei suborder	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Antennariidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachionichthyidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Caulophrynidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Centrophrynidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ceratiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaunacidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Diceratiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gigantactinidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Himantolophidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Linophrynidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lophichthyidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lophiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melanocetidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neoceratiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ogcocephalidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oneirodidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tetrabrachiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tetrabranchidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thaumatichthidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thaumatichthyidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Antennarius genus	listed (PBDB)		3	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Dibranchus genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ogcocephalus genus	listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2001	Lophiiformes Purdy et al. p. 165
2002	Lophiiformes Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Lophiiformes Nelson
2008	Lophiiformes Carnevale et al.
2009	Lophiiformes Carnevale and Pietsch
2010	Lophiiformes Carnevale and Pietsch p. 625

Year	Name and Author
2011	Lophiiformes Long p. 243
2012	Lophiiformes Fierstine et al. p. 78
2013	Lophiiformes Betancur-R. et al.
2014	Lophiiformes Bannikov p. 26
2018	Lophiiformes Carnevale and Godfrey p. 171

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Purdy R. W., Schneider V. P., et al (2001) The Neogene sharks, rays, and bony fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90, 71-202

Nelson J. S. (2006) , Fishes of the world, 4th edition, 1-601

Carnevale G., Pietsch T. W., et al (2008) Fossil Ceratioid Anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) from the Miocene of the Los Angeles Basin, California, Journal of Paleontology 85 2, 996-1008

Carnevale G., Pietsch T. W. (2009) The Deep-Sea Anglerfish Genus Acentrophryne (Teleostei, Ceratioidei, Linophrynidae) in the Miocene of California, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 2, 372-378

Carnevale G., Pietsch T. W. (2010) Eocene handfishes from Monte Bolca, with description of a new genus and species, and a phylogeny of the family Brachionichthyidae (Teleostei: Lophiiformes), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160, 621-64710.1111 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00623.x

Long J. A. (2011) , The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition), 1-287

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Bannikov A. F. (2014) The systematic composition of the Eocene actinopterygian fish fauna from Monte Bolca, northern Italy, as known to date, Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca, XV - Miscellanea paleontologica 12, 23-34

Carnevale G., Godfrey S. J. (2018) Miocene Bony Fishes of the Calvert, Choptank, St. Marys, and Eastover Formations, Chesapeake Group, Maryland and Virginia, Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology, 161-212

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Marine Species

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Mecklenburg, Catherine W., T. Anthony Mecklenburg, and Lyman K. Thorsteinson, 2002: null. Fishes of Alaska. xxxvii + 1037. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Shiino, Sueo M., 1976: List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations. Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4. 262. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Brands, S.J. (comp.) (2014) The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. [http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/]. 1989-present. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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