Female deep sea anglerfishes are predatory, luring their prey with a bioluminescent bulb (an esca) at the end of a long rod (an illicium), which is a modified fin ray. Impressive teeth are used to impale and hold any prey item that moves in to investigate the glowing lure. The lure is filled with bioluminescent bacteria, which live in a symbiosis with the female anglerfish. This is a Whipnose Anglerfish, Gigantactis sp. This individual was captured in a trawl between 1, 000 and 600 meters depth in the Gulf of Mexico, 2018. Image courtesy of the DEEPEND project. | |
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