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Melanocetus johnsonii (Humpback anglerfish; Johnson's black anglerfish; Blackdevil; Humpback blackdevil)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Melanocetus johnsonii is a species of fish in the family Melanocetidae, the black seadevils. It is known commonly as the humpback anglerfish, humpback blackdevil, and Johnson's anglerfish. It is a deepwater fish living at depths of up to 4500 meters, but generally remaining above 1500 meters. It is native to all the oceans of the world, where it can be found in tropical and many temperate regions. It is even known from the Ross Sea in Antarctica. First discovered by and named after James Yate Johnson.
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Predators

Alepisaurus ferox (Wolffish)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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.
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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