Sentences with phrase «as anglerfishes»

«Frogfishes, members of the group known as anglerfishes, are usually provided with a «fishing pole,» tipped with a fleshy «bait,» located on the snout and derived from the first dorsal fin spine.

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At just 6.2 millimeters long, a swamp - dwelling male anglerfish from Southeast Asia, first described in 2005, is currently regarded as the world's smallest vertebrate.

Earlier this year an analysis of mitochondrial DNA conducted by researchers in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan estimated that the first anglerfish appeared about 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, and quickly diversified as they spread into habitats ranging from shallow waters to the continental shelves to the harsh deeps.

Let it not be said that nothing good ever came from an oil spill, as this newly described species of deep - sea anglerfish shows