Genus Sladenia
A genus of the family Lophiidae with rounded rather than depressed head, and compressed rather than depressed tail; nasal sacs not constricted at base; very long pseudobranchia; third dorsal spine absent; humeral, subopercular, quadrate, parietal, and articular spines absent; epiotic and interopercular spines low and rounded; vomerine teeth larger than palatine; ilIicial bone and second dorsal spine inserting very close together on ilIicial pterygiophore; and smooth ridge on frontal bones anterior to eyes and lateral to illicial pterygiophore. (Caruso & Bullis 1976)
References
Caruso, J.H. 1985. The systematics and distribution of the lophiid anglerfishes. III. Intergeneric relationships. Copeia 1985(4): 870-875.
Caruso, J.H. 1999. Order: Lophiiformes. Lophiidae. Anglerfishes (monkfishes). p. 2004-2012. In K.E. Carpenter & V.H. Niem (eds) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 3. Batoid fishes, chimaeras and bony fishes part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). FAO, Rome.
Caruso, J.H. & H.R. Bullis, Jr. 1976. A review of the lophiid angler fish genus Sladenia with a description of a new species from the Caribbean Sea. Bull. Mar. Sci. 26(1): 59-64.
Chave, E.H. & B.C. Mundy. 1994. Deep-sea benthic fish of the Hawaiian archipelago, Cross Seamount, and Johnson Atoll. Pacific Science 48(4): 367-409.
Ni, Y., H.-L. Wu & S. Li. 2012. A new species of the genus Sladenia (Pisces, Lophiidae) from the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 37(1): 211-216.