While there are many species in the “angler fish” family (over 200), this species – Lophius piscatorius, is most commonly known as the “angler” fish. It is also known as the monkfish, frog fish or sea devil and has a distinctive body shape and appearance. It has a sandy brown-green, frilly, camouflaged body. It has a flat head, a wide mouth and rows of gruesome looking teeth. The maximum length of the fish is 6.5 ft (2 m) but it is mostly head, mouth and stomach. Its fins are located on the outs

Frogfish -- Monkfish Lophius piscatorius is a species of anglerfish of the family Lophiidae of the order Lophiiformes, with a natural distribution in the deep coastal waters of the continental shelf and continental slope of the northeast Atlantic Ocean, from the Barents Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The species is the subject of important commercial fishing in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and in the Irish Sea. #ocean #sea #coral #pufferfish #an