Goosefishes, sometimes called anglers or monkfishes, are a family, the Lophiidae, of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. The family includes 30 recognized species. These fishes are found in all the world's oceans except for …

Feb 2, 2023 · With a face that only a mother goosefish could love, the goosefish is one of the stranger-looking critters that dwell in the ocean. Read on to learn about what makes goosefish unique—and why you should love them.

Goosefish, any of about 25 species of anglerfishes of the family Lophiidae (order Lophiiformes), found in warm and temperate seas around the world. Goosefishes are soft and flabby with wide, flattened heads and slender, tapering bodies.

Lophius americanus is a goosefish in the family Lophiidae, also called all-mouth, American anglerfish, American monkfish, bellows-fish, devil-fish, headfish, molligut, satchel-mouth, or wide-gape. It is native to the eastern coast of North America.

Goosefish are marine bottom-dwelling fish that prefer sand, mud, and broken shell bottoms from inshore areas to depths greater than 2,000 feet. They are voracious predators and feed on fishes and other prey almost as big as themselves.

The monkfish, also known as goosefish, all-mouth, or sea devils, are large predatory fish in the genus Lophius. In the past, when monks asked for unused fish, they were given the monkfish, thus their name.

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Goosefish have a broad range and can be found throughout the North Atlantic, Arctic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are a deep-sea animal which lives on both muddy and rocky surfaces up to 2,952 feet (900 m) in depth.

The Goosefish or Lophiidae Family has twenty-eight global members that are found in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Three are found in Mexican waters of the Pacific Ocean. They are also known as Monkfish and/or Anglerfish, are known in …

Lophiodes beroe, the white goosefish or white anglerfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goosefishes, monkfishes or anglers. This species is found in deep waters in the western Atlantic Ocean.