Lasiognathus
id:
lasiognathus-206-4000760
title:
Lasiognathus
text:
Lasiognathus, the wolftrap anglerfish, is a genus of deep-sea anglerfish in the family Thaumatichthyidae, with six species known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Like its sister genus Thaumatichthys, it is distinct from other anglerfish for an enormous upper jaw with premaxillaries that can be folded down to enclose the much shorter lower jaw. Its lure apparatus appears to consist of a "complete" fishing rod; the projecting basal bone or pteropterygium being the rod itself; the illicium, a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Genus of fishes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasiognathus
date created:
2008-12-10T01:03:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T17:04:41Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16