Lophius
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Members of the genus Lophius, commonly called monkfish, toadfish, sea frogs, fishing frogs, frogfish, and sea devils, are various species of lophiid anglerfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Monkfish
Taxidermied Lophius americanus showing the often hidden dorsal spines
Ankimo, a Japanese delicacy made of monkfish liver
Lophius americanus museum of nature
Lophius piscatorius
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Lophius piscatorius, commonly known as the angler, toadfish, sea frog, fishing frog, frogfish, or sea devil, is a species of Lophius in the family Lophiidae. It occurs in coastal and shelf waters of t
Lophius
…North Sea and North Atlantic fishermen, a name which also belongs to Squatina squatina, the angelshark, a type of shark. The North European species is Lophius piscatorius, and the Mediterranean species is Lophius budegassa. Lophius was first proposed as a genus by Carl Linnaeus when he described Lophius piscatorius in…
Lophius piscatorius in situ off of northern Ireland
Illustration of L. piscatorius from vol. 5 of Marcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire naturelle des poissons (1796)
Skeleton at the Muséum de Toulouse
L. piscatorius harvested and hung up to dry in Kjerringøy, Norway.