Thaumatichthys binghami
No common name
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Taxonomic Hierarchy
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Lophiiformes (Anglerfish)
Thaumatichthyidae (Wolftrap Anglers)
Thaumatichthys
Thaumatichthys binghami
Description
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Characters
Females: Premaxilla 23.5% to 27% of SL, with long, hooked teeth in six overlapping, oblique longitudinal series; eye and olfactory papillae close to angles of mouth; sphenotic, preopercular, and articular spines absent; pectoral fin rays 14 or 15; illicium and illicial pterygiophore short; esca with two or three pairs of lateral-pointed lobes, curved denticle, and single internal black bulb-shaped photophore; second dorsal fin rays 6 or 7, anal fin rays 4, caudal fin rays 9; skin with numerous small spines. Males: Premaxilla present but lacks teeth; upper denticular bone with two bilateral pairs of denticles; lower denticular bone with seven denticles in two bilateral series; pectoral fin rays 15; second dorsal fin rays 6, anal fin rays 4, caudal fin rays 9.
Dark brown to black
Distribution
Western Atlantic from east coast of Florida to Caribbean coast of South America, including Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas
Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
On or near the bottom at 1,270 to 4,032 m; larvae and juveniles pelagic between 20 and 1,750 m
Biology
53 mm SL
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2018-10-12.
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: of no interest.
References
Parr 1927a
Bertelsen 1951 (as Amacrodon binghami)
Bertelsen and Struhsaker 1977
Anderson et al. 1985
Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.) (1998) Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p.
McAllister, D.E. (1990) A working list of fishes of the world. Copies available from D.E. McAllister, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada. 2661 p. plus 1270 p. Index.
Pietsch, T.W. (2009) Oceanic anglerfishes. Extraordinary diversity in the deep sea. Oceanic Anglerfishes, i-xii; 1-557pp.
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