While touring the OSU preserved fish collection with NANFA member Dan Logan,
he opened up a bucket and stated something to the effect that we were
looking at one of the few preserved specimens of the warty sea hag with an
attached parasitic male. It was of course a deep sea angler, and it did
indeed have a wee little male attached as an appendage. It was quite an
interesting specimen.
Washington State University was offering a reward for specimens of this
species with or minus the male. Occasionally they wash ashore in the
Pacific Northwest. They had wanted posters at coastal tackle shops all up
and down Oregon and Washington's coast.
Norm
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----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_charm.net>
To: NANFA Mailing List <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- strange fish question
The book ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FISHES (1st ed.) has a color photo (p. 37) of a
female
deepsea angler fish -- Haplophryne mollis -- with not one but two parasitic
males attached. (This book is available at all major outlets. Alhough short
on
NA fishes, it's a nice intro to fish diversity.)
If you really want to see it, I'll scan the photo and ask Jay to temporarily
post it on his website. Although we are breaking international copyright law
in
so doing.
chris
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