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Triplewart Seadevil

Reference

IB1160

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Seadevils - CERATIIDAE

Common Name

Triplewart Seadevil

Scientific Name

Cryptopsarus couesii

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Male Seadevils are much smaller than females and lack the illicium, esca and light organs. Once free-living male has found a female, it uses its denticular teeth to attach itself to her permanently, usually on the belly.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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