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Lophius piscatorius
Angler An"gler, n. 1. One who angles. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

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- shark. The North European species is Lophius piscatorius, and the Mediterranean species is Lophius budeg****a. Lophius was first proposed as a genus by Carl...
- genus, Lophius. In 1883, David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert designated this species as the type species of that genus. The genus Lophius is one...
- the genera Lophius (incl. Lophius piscatorius), Chironectes/Antennarius (incl. various subspecies of Lophius histrio), Malthe (incl. Lophius vespertilio)...
- over one inch. "Lophius americ**** Goosefish". NatureServe. 1 January 1997. Retrieved 7 March 2024. Bailly, Nicolas (2010). "Lophius americ**** Valenciennes...
- monotypic suborder Lophioidei within the order Lophiiformes. Lophius vomerinus has the genus name Lophius, which means "mane" and is presumably a reference to...
- The goosefish family, Lophiidae, takes its name from its type genus, Lophius. Lophius means "mane" and is presumably a reference to the first 3 spines of...
- monotypic suborder Lophioidei with the order Lophiiformes. Lophius budeg****a has the genus name Lophius, which means "mane" and is presumably a reference to...
- histrio (Linnaeus, 1758) Lophius tumidus Osbeck, 1765 Chironectes tumidus (Osbeck, 1765) Pterophryne tumida (Osbeck, 1765) Lophius histrio marmoratus Bloch...
- called monkfish, although this name is also applied to members of the genus Lophius. While some species occur over a wide geographic range, the majority are...
- in 1883 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Lophius setigerus as its only species. Lophius setigerus was first formally described in 1797 by the...