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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...
- over one inch. "Lophius americ**** Goosefish". NatureServe. 1 January 1997. Retrieved 7 March 2024. Bailly, Nicolas (2010). "Lophius americ**** Valenciennes...
- monotypic suborder Lophioidei with the order Lophiiformes. Lophius budeg****a has the genus name Lophius, which means "mane" and is presumably a reference to...
- International added the American angler (Lophius americ****), the angler (Lophius piscatorius), and the black-bellied angler (Lophius budeg****a) to its seafood red...
- 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 within the order Lophiiformes. Lophius vomerinus has the genus name Lophius, which means "mane" and is presumably a reference to...
- 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...
- doi:10.1643/CI-10-080. JSTORĀ 41261851. S2CIDĀ 84870224. Alroy, John. "Lophius brachysomus Ag****iz 1835 (anglerfish)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December...
- (restaurant), a seafood restaurant in San Francisco, California The angler, Lophius piscatorius, a monkfish More generally, any anglerfish in the order Lophiiformes...