Anglerfish

 

Characteristics of a Anglerfish

Anglerfish have soft bones and squishy type flesh that is either gray or black in color. They are shaped like a baseball with fins. The anglerfish do not have pectoral fins. The anglerfish is very slow. The eyes of the anglerfish are small like other deep sea creatures. It can grow up to be up to 8 inches long.

What an Anglerfish eats and how it eats

An anglerfish eats crustaceans and other smaller fishes. An anglerfish eats by using the lure on the end of its "fishing pole". This lure lights up by using the bacteria around it to create a bioluminescent light. When this light is lit up fish see it and think it is the poop that came from up top, because when other fish from up top poop it comes down and catches bacteria and starts glowing. The anglerfish pretends its lure is a piece of poop that glows and small fish come to it and get eaten by the anglerfish.

Mating Anglerfish

An anglerfish male makes a different sort of pattern to let a female know that he is a type of anglerfish to have babies with. Then the male lives on the female as a parasite. Later they come together as a two body hermaphrodite and have kids.

Different Types of AnglerFish

Name:Yellow anglerfish

Location: Thailand

Name:Deepsea Anglerfish

Location:?

Name: Black Whale Anglerfish

Location:?

Name: Net Devil

Location:?