Ceratioidei

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Ceratioidei
Temporal range: Middle Miocene–present
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Krøyer's deep sea angler fish (Ceratias holboelli)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lophiiformes
Suborder: Ceratioidei
Regan, 1912
Families

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Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes or pelagic anglerfishes, is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes, one of four suborders in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are found in tropical and temperate seas throughout the world.

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The deep-sea anglerfishes exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. The males are many times smaller than the females; a male seeks out a female, using its sharp teeth to clamp onto the female, where the male remains for the rest of its life. In some species, the male becomes part of the female. This is the only known natural example of a process called parabiosis. Another common trait of deep-sea anglerfishes is that they use bioluminescence on their esca to attract prey in the darkness of the deep oceans they inhabit. [1]

Taxonomy

Ceratioidei was first proposed as a grouping in 1912 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan as the division Ceratiformes within the suborder Lophoidea of the order Pediculati, which included the Batrachoididae. [2] The Batrachoididae are not considered to be closely related to the anglerfishes, which are now included in the order Lophiiformes. Ceratioidei are in the same clade as the Chaunacoidei with the Antennarioidei and the Ogcocephaloidei as the sisters of that clade. [3] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World treats this grouping as a suborder within the Lophiiformes. [4]

Evolution

A 2024 study found that although the ceratioids likely diverged from the Chaunacidae during the Paleocene, the diversification into their multiple modern families only occurred throughout the Eocene following the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. This likely also coincides with their colonization of deep-sea habitats. Prior to these radiations, ancestral ceratioids evolved extreme sexual size dimorphism and independently lost adaptive immune genes such as aicda , which allowed male anglerfishes to fuse with females, ultimately leading to the evolution of their sexual parasitism. [5]

Owing to the extreme environments they inhabit, fossil remains of deep-sea anglerfishes are very rare in the geologic record. Only a few formations worldwide preserve them, which tend to have been deposited in tectonically active regions where deep-sea sediments could be uplifted to the surface. These include the Puente Formation of California, USA, and the Kurasi Formation of Sakhalin Island, Russia. These formations date to the mid-late Miocene. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Etymology

Ceratioidei takes its name from the genus Ceratias , the type genus of the family Ceratidae and of the suborder. Ceratias means "horn bearer", an allusion to the esca sticking up from the snout. [10]

Families

Representatives of ceratioid families:1. (A) Centrophrynidae: Centrophryne spinulosa; (B) Ceratiidae: Cryptopsaras couesii; (C) Himantolophidae: Himantolophus appelii; (D) Diceratiidae: Diceratias trilobus; (E) Diceratiidae: Bufoceratias wedli; (F) Diceratiidae: Bufoceratias shaoi; (G) Melanocetidae: Melanocetus eustalus; (H) Thaumatichthyidae: Lasiognathus amphirhamphus; (I) Thaumatichthyidae: Thaumatichthys binghami; (J) Oneirodidae: Chaenophryne quasiramifera. Representatives of ceratioid families.jpg
Representatives of ceratioid families:1. (A) Centrophrynidae: Centrophryne spinulosa ; (B) Ceratiidae: Cryptopsaras couesii ; (C) Himantolophidae: Himantolophus appelii ; (D) Diceratiidae: Diceratias trilobus ; (E) Diceratiidae: Bufoceratias wedli ; (F) Diceratiidae: Bufoceratias shaoi ; (G) Melanocetidae: Melanocetus eustalus ; (H) Thaumatichthyidae: Lasiognathus amphirhamphus ; (I) Thaumatichthyidae: Thaumatichthys binghami ; (J) Oneirodidae: Chaenophryne quasiramifera .

Ceratioidei contains the following families: [4] [11]

Related Research Articles

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ceratiidae</span> Family of fishes

Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils, caruncled seadevils or seadevils, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes, in the anglerfish order Lophiiformes. The warty sea devils are sexually dimorphic with the small males being obligate sexual parasites of the much larger females. The fishes in this family are widely distributed from polar to tropical seas around the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fanfin</span> Family of fishes

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Double angler</span> Family of fishes

Double anglers, the family Diceratiidae, is a small and little known family of rarely encountered marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. The two genera and seven species of this family are found in the deeper waters of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are distinguished from other deep sea anglerfishes by the possession of a second bioluminescent cephalic spine. The fishes in this family were known only from metamorphosed females and the males were not described until 1983.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Krøyer's deep sea angler fish</span> Species of fish

Krøyer's deep sea angler fish, also known as the deep-sea angler, longray seadevil or northern seadevil, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty seadevils. It is found throughout the oceans of the world, from tropical to polar seas. It is the largest species in its family.

Thaumatichthyidae, the wolftrap anglers, is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes, also called the wolftrap seadevils, classified within the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes. They have distinctive upper jaws with movable premaxillaries that can be lowered to form a cage-like trap around the much shorter lower jaw.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horned lantern fish</span> Species of fish

The horned lantern fish or prickly seadevil is a species of marine ray-finned fish, it is the only species in the monotypic family Centrophrynidae. This species has a circumglobal distribution and is distinguished from other deep-sea anglerfishes by various characters including four pectoral radials, an anterior spine on the subopercular bone, and a short hyoid (chin) barbel in both sexes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Whipnose angler</span> Family of fishes

The whipnose anglers are a family, the Gigantactinidae, of marine ray-finned fishes which is classified within the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Rhynchactis leptonema is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gigantactinidae, the whipnose anglers. This species is known from widely scattered locations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

<i>Ceratias</i> Genus of fishes

Ceratias is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils. This fishes in this genus are found throughpuit the world's oceans.

<i>Diceratias</i> Genus of fishes

Diceratias is a genus of deep sea marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Diceratiidae, the double anglers. These fishes are found in the Eastern Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions.

<i>Acentrophryne</i> Genus of fishes

Acentrophryne is a genus of deep-sea anglerfish in the family Linophrynidae, the leftvents, known from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Fossils of the type species, A. longidens, have been found in Late Miocene-aged Puente Formation of Rosedale, California.

<i>Linophryne</i> Genus of fishes

Linophryne, the bearded seadevils, is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Linophrynidae, the leftvents. These deep sea anglerfishes are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

<i>Puck pinnata</i> Species of fish

Puck pinnata, the mischievous dreamer, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep-sea anglerfishes. This species is known from four metamorphosed female specimens each collected from four separate locations, three in the Pacific Ocean and one in the Atlantic Ocean. As with all other species in the family, it is a pelagic, deep-water fish that is a member of the abyssal ecosystem. It is the only known species in the monospecific genus Puck.

Lasiognathus dinema is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Thaumatichthyidae, the wolftrap anglers. This species is known only from the northern Gulf of Mexico.

<i>Ceratias uranoscopus</i> Species of fish

Ceratias uranoscopus, the stargazing seadevil, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils. The fish is both bathypelagic and mesopelagic and can typically be found at depths ranging from 500 to 1,000 metres. It is endemic to tropical waters and can be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

Gigantactis meadi, Mead's whipnose, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gigantactinidae, the whipnose anglers. This species is found in the deeper waters of the southern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Gigantactis elsmani, Elsman's whipnose, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gigantactinidae, the whipnose anglers. This species is found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

<i>Acentrophryne longidens</i> Species of fish

Acentrophryne longidens is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Linophryidae, the leftvents, a family of deep sea anglerfishes. This species is only known from the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Costa Rica and Panama.

References

  1. ↑ Emily Osterloff. "The bizarre love life of the anglerfish". Natural History Museum . Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  2. ↑ Regan, C.T. (1912). "The classification of the teleostean fishes of the order Pediculati". Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series. 8 & 9. 9 (51): 277–289. doi:10.1080/00222931208693132.
  3. ↑ Arnold, Rachel J. (2014). Evolutionary Relationships of the Enigmatic Anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): Can Nuclear DNA Provide Resolution for Conflicting Morphological and Mitochondrial Phylogenies? (PhD thesis). University of Washington.
  4. 1 2 Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 508–518. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN   2015037522. OCLC   951899884. OL   25909650M.
  5. ↑ Brownstein, Chase D.; Zapfe, Katerina L.; Lott, Spencer; Harrington, Richard; Ghezelayagh, Ava; Dornburg, Alex; Near, Thomas J. (2024). "Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean". Current Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.066 . ISSN   0960-9822.
  6. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  7. ↑ Carnevale, Giorgio; Pietsch, Theodore W.; Takeuchi, Gary T.; Huddleston, Richard W. (2008). "Fossil ceratioid anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) from the Miocene of the Los Angeles Basin, California". Journal of Paleontology. 82 (5): 996–1008. doi:10.1666/07-113.1. ISSN   0022-3360.
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  9. ↑ Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Pietsch, Theodore W. (2020). "A fossil dreamer of the genus Oneirodes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) from the Miocene of Sakhalin Island, Russia". Geological Magazine. 157 (8): 1378–1382. doi:10.1017/S0016756820000588. ISSN   0016-7568.
  10. ↑ Christopher Scharpf (18 October 2022). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 2): Families CAULOPHRYNIDAE, NEOCERATIIDAE, MELANOCETIDAE, HIMANTOLOPHIDAE, DICERATIIDAE, ONEIRODIDAE, THAUMATICHTHYIDAE, CENTROPHRYNIDAE, CERATIIDAE, GIGANTACTINIDAE and LINOPHRYNIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
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