Fanfin
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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.["Caulophrynidae"]. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
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 Goode & Bean, 1896.
- * Caulophryne pelagica (Brauer, 1902).
- * Caulophryne pietschi Balushkin & Fedorov, 1985.
- * Caulophryne polynema Regan, 1930.
- Genus Robia
- * Robia legula Pietsch, 1979.
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