The male becomes a permanent appendage that draws nutrition from its female host and serves as an easily accessible source of sperm. In an Instagram post, Crystal Cove State Park said the 18-inch fish, which is believed to be a Pacific Football Fish, was discovered in the parks marine protected area. The males of some anglerfish species, including the football fish, have evolved into “sexual parasites.” Using well-developed olfactory organs, they find and fuse themselves to females, eventually losing their eyes, internal organs, and everything else but the testes. This was the same Pacific footballfish (Himantolophus sagamius) we now have in our collections. The first spine of an anglefish's dorsal fins, called the illicium, extends outward to end in a fleshy, phosphorescent bulb (or esca), which the fish use to lure prey. Male and female anglerfish differ dramatically in size, with some females measuring up to ten times larger than their male counterparts. In 1985, deep-sea fishermen in Monterey Bay, California, hauled up their nets to find a menacing-looking fish with a 6-inch-long globular body, prickly skin, needle-sharp teeth, miniscule eyes, and a strange stalk on its head. This was the same Pacific footballfish ( Himantolophus sagamius) we now have in our collections, and one of more than 300 living species of anglerfish (of the order Lophiiformes) found around the world. It is currently being held by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife.In 1985, deep-sea fishermen in Monterey Bay, California, hauled up their nets to find a menacing-looking fish with a 6-inch-long globular body, prickly skin, needle-sharp teeth, miniscule eyes, and a strange stalk on its head. For a limited time, guests can see a Pacific Footballfisha rare deep-sea specimenon display in Oddities: Hidden Heroes of the Scripps Collections at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The creature was a female Pacific footballfish, an exceedingly rare deep-sea anglerfish that lives thousands of feet underwater, in the midnight zone, and sports a bioluminescent lure that it. The body of the fish is expected to end up with a research or educational organization. Seeing this strange and fascinating fish is a testament to the diversity of marine life lurking below the water's surface in California's MPAs and as scientists continue to learn more about these deep sea creatures it's important to reflect on how much is still to be learned from our wonderful ocean." The Pacific football fish is one of over 200 species of angler fish across the world, according to Crystal Cove State Park officials. Wild!" "To see an actual angler fish intact is very rare and it is unknown how or why the fish ended up on the shore. 16 (UPI) - Ocean researchers said a rare Pacific footballfish washed up on a California beach, becoming one of only small number of the species ever collected. These fish are found at great depths of the seas. It has a wide range, extending from the coasts of Honshu ( Gulf of Sagami) and Hokkaido islands through the Kuril-Kamchatka trough, in the northwest Pacific, to the eastern Pacific from California to Peru. Their large mouth is capable of swallowing prey that is the size of their own body. The Pacific footballfish ( Himantolophus sagamius) is a species found in the Pacific. Only female Pacific Football fish has bioluminescent tips that are used to hunt prey in the darkness of water that is 3,000 feet deep. Males latch onto the female with their teeth and become 'sexual parasites,' eventually coalescing with the female until nothing is left of their form but their testes for reproduction. The Pacific Football fish are 60 centimetres in length. "Only females possess a long stalk on the head with bioluminescent tips used as a lure to entice prey in the darkness of waters as deep as 3,000 feet! Their teeth, like pointed shards of glass, are transparent and their large mouth is capable of sucking up and swallowing prey the size of their own body." "While females can reach lengths of 24 inches males only grow to be about an inch long and their sole purpose is to find a female and help her reproduce. 'It's the stuff of nightmares' A rare, monstrous-looking fish normally found thousands of feet deep in the ocean washed ashore at a SoCal. Officials with the state park described some of the fish's attributes in a Facebook post:
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