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Lophius vomerinus (Cape monk; Devil anglerfish; Monk)

Synonyms: Lophius upsicephalus
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  11 years

Prey / Diet

Merluccius capensis (Cape hake)[2]
Sepia australis (southern cuttlefish)[3]
Sufflogobius bibarbatus (Pelagic goby)[4]
Todarodes sagittatus (European flying squid)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Dipturus pullopunctatus (Skate)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anisakis pegreffii[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, 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.
♦ 2Daily ration and feeding periodicity of some fishes off the coast of Namibia, E. Macpherson, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser 26: 253-260, 1985
♦ 3CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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