Humpback Blackdevil, Melanocetus johnsonii Günther 1864
Other Names: Common Black Devil, Humpback Anglerfish, Johnson's Blackdevil Anglerfish
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Bray, D.J. 2018, Melanocetus johnsonii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3586
Humpback Blackdevil, Melanocetus johnsonii Günther 1864
More Info
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Distribution |
Off Newcastle, New South Wales, to the Great Australian Bight, South Australia, and the Norfolk Ridge, south-west of Norfolk Island. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal at temperate latitudes. |
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Remarks |
Female Humpback Devilfish have bacterial bioluminescence, with luminous bacteria in the lure or esca producing the light. |
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Species Citation |
Melanocetus johnsonii Günther 1864, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 301, pl. 25. Type locality Madeira. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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Humpback Blackdevil, Melanocetus johnsonii Günther 1864
References
Anderson, M.E. & Leslie, R.W. 2001. Review of the deep-sea anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) of southern Africa. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 70: 1-32
Günther, A. 1864. On a new genus of pediculate fish from the sea of Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 301-303 pl. 25
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
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. 2009. Oceanic Anglerfishes. Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press pp. i-xii + 1-557.
Pietsch T.W. 2008. Melanocetidae. pp. 380 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.
