Fanfin Totally Explained

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Fanfins are a family, Caulophrynidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in deep, lightless waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
They are distinguished from other anglerfishes by the lack of the expanded escal bulb — the bioluminescent lure at the end of the illicium — and by the very long dorsal and anal fin rays.
As in other anglerfishes, males are very much smaller than the females and, after a larval and adolescent free-living stage, spend the rest of their life parasitically attached to a female.

Species

There are five species in two genera:

Genus Caulophryne
- Caulophryne jordani (Fanfin seadevil) Goode & Bean, 1896.
- Caulophryne pelagica (Brauer, 1902).
- Caulophryne pietschi Balushkin & Fedorov, 1985.
- Caulophryne polynema (Hairy angler)Regan, 1930.
Genus Robia
- Robia legula Pietsch, 1979.

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