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Lophius piscatorius (Monkfish; Monk; Anglerfish; Angler; Angler fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lophius piscatorius, commonly known as the angler, is a monkfish in the family Lophiidae. It is found in coastal waters of the northeast Atlantic, from the Barents Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Within some of its range, including the Irish Sea, this species comprises a significant commercial fishery.
View Wikipedia Record: Lophius piscatorius

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  69.964 lbs (31.735 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  4 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  4 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [2]  24 years

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♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4"The diet and trophic ecology of anglerfish Lophius piscatorius at the Shetland Islands, UK", C.H. Laurenson and I.G. Priede, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 85 / Issue 02 / April 2005, pp 419-424
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0