This anglerfish has mastered a trick to light up the depths of the Pacific Ocean. It also looks really cool.
, the specimen was about a foot long and probably lived between 1,000 and 4,000 feet deep. Only females grow to this size, as most males of anglerfish species are small, and often even latch on to females parasitically. It’s a rare find, with only around 30 other anglerfish specimens in collections worldwide, says Ludt. The team received the footballfish frozen and thawed her, with plans to inject the precious sample with formalin for preservation.
“Already this species has a very complicated, elaborate display that it can create with its lure, and this fluorescence adds on top of it,” says Ludt. The hanging esca bulb is noticeably larger than some other species, and is flanked by numerous tentacle-like appendages that each have a silvery, light-emitting tip.
The new findings suggest that biofluorescence might be more common among species of anglerfish and other deep sea organisms than previously thought.
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