Anglerfish, the amazing sexual parasites of the abyss

Anglerfish, the amazing sexual parasites of the abyss

Source: elpais

3/7/2023

Credit: Alamy / contacto

The study of this unique fish, whose males are born to become mere reproductive appendages of the females, could help save lives

Bjarni Saemundsson (b. 1867) was the first Icelandic biologist who devoted his life to studying fishing; he did it with no funding, whenever his job as a high school teacher allowed it. In May 1917, a very peculiar fish that appeared in the nets of a fishing boat was taken to Saemudsson for study. It was a female anglerfish of the Ceratias holboelli species. In an article published in 1922, he expressed his amazement:

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