Triplewart Seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883
Other Names: Coves' Horned Anglerfish
A female Triplewart Seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii. Source: Edith Widder / EOL. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
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Bray, D.J. 2018, Cryptopsaras couesii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 25 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3424
Triplewart Seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883
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Distribution |
Coral Sea off Queensland and off New South Wales, to the Great Australian Bight, South Australia, including around Tasmania to the South Tasman Rise; also the Lord Howe Rise and Norfolk Ridge in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal, mostly at temperate latitudes. |
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Remarks |
Female Triplewart Seadevils have bacterial bioluminscence, with luminous bacteria in the lure or esca producing the light. |
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Species Citation |
Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883, Forest and Streams Nov. 8: 284. Type locality: off Long Island, New York, USA, 1686 fathoms, [39°18'N, 68°24'W]. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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Triplewart Seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883
References
Gill, T.N. 1883. Deep-sea fishing fishes Cryptopsaras couesii. Forest and Streams Nov. 8: 284
Hendry, T.A., Freed, L.L., Fader, D., Fenolio, D., Sutton, T.T. & Lopez, J.V. 2018. Ongoing transposon-mediated genome reduction in the luminous bacterial symbionts of deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes. mBio 9(3): e01033-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01033-18 Open access
Hureau, J.-C. & Monod, T. (eds) 1973. Checklist of the Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). Paris : UNESCO Vol. 1 683 pp.
Pietsch, T.W. 1986. Systematics and distribution of bathypelagic anglerfishes of the family Ceratiidae (order: Lophiiformes). Copeia 1986(2): 479-493
Pietsch, T.W. 1999. Families Caulophrynidae, Neoceratiidae, Melanocetidae, Himantolophidae, Diceratiidae, Oneirodidae, Thaumatichthyidae, Centrophrynidae, Ceratiidae, Gigantactinidae, Linophrynidae. pp. 2026-2037 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068.
Pietsch, T.W. 2008. Ceratiidae. pp. 385-386 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.
Pietsch, T.W. 2009. Oceanic Anglerfishes. Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press pp. i-xii + 1-557.
Regan, C.T. & Trewavas, E. 1932. Deep sea anglerfish (Ceratioidea). Dana Reports 1928–30 2: 1-113 figs 1-172 pls 1-10
