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Diagnostic Description

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Rosy in color with golden spots on head and body; fins pink; front of esca dusky with rosy colored stem (Ref. 4115).
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Cristina V. Garilao
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 12; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 5 - 7
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Trophic Strategy

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Depths range from 275 to 625 m. Found on continental shelves and slopes, from approximately 200 m and below (Ref. 10756). A solitary species (Ref. 26340). Potential prey of Laminaria (Ref. 58472).
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Grace Tolentino Pablico
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Biology

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Found on continental shelves and slopes, from approximately 200 m and below (Ref. 10756). A solitary species (Ref. 26340).
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Susan M. Luna
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Importance

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fisheries: of no interest
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Pink frogmouth

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The pink frogmouth or redeye, Chaunax pictus, is a sea toad of the family Chaunacidae, found around the world on continental shelves in tropical and temperate waters, at depths of between 200 and 660 m. Its length is up to 40 cm. It can be distinguish from present species with a black, deeply concave illicial cavity, and an esca that is black anterodosally and pale or white posteroventrally.

References

  1. ^ Arnold, R. (2015). "Chaunax pictus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T190064A21910135. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190064A21910135.en. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Chaunax pictus" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
  • Caruso, John H. “Systematics and Distribution of the Atlantic Chaunacid Anglerfishes (Pisces: Lophiiformes).” Copeia, vol. 1989, no. 1, 1989, pp. 153–165. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1445616. Accessed 6 Mar. 2020.
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Pink frogmouth: Brief Summary

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The pink frogmouth or redeye, Chaunax pictus, is a sea toad of the family Chaunacidae, found around the world on continental shelves in tropical and temperate waters, at depths of between 200 and 660 m. Its length is up to 40 cm. It can be distinguish from present species with a black, deeply concave illicial cavity, and an esca that is black anterodosally and pale or white posteroventrally.

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Distribution

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Apparently worldwide in tropical to temperate waters. 51.8°N to 12.5°S.

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North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Habitat

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Found on continental shelves and slopes, from approximately 200 m and below.

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Habitat

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benthic

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Habitat

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Known from seamounts and knolls

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Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.

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