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Black Sea Devil
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The Black seadevil

  • Lophius piscatoriu
  • Also known as Angler fish

It lives 3300 feet in the twight zone

Photo by reivax

Adapations

  • Bioluminescence
  • Gills
  • Dorsal Spine(Only Female angler fish)

Behavioral Adapations

  • Eating
  • Mating
  • Breathing

Negitive impacts

  • Over Fishing (this species can be indangered for food)
  • Polluting (Angler fish might think trash as food)

Postive Impacts

  • The anglerfish is listed in the UK Biodiversity Grouped Species Action Plan for deep-water fish
  • The commercial exploitation of anglerfish is governed by the total allowable catch (TAC) regulations

The angler fish lives
in the murky deeps of the Atlantic
Ocean

Also in the Antarctic ocean

Quick fact:The black seadevil mating steps

  • When a male maturnes its stomach degrows
  • the male need to find a female angler fish to surive
  • when male finds one he attactes himself to the female
  • getting nutrition and shelter like a parasite
  • then they mate