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Oyster toadfish

Illustrated comparison of body shapes for various fish: a dark anglerfish with a bioluminescent lure, a round pancake batfish, a flat sargassum fish, a slender Eastern cleaner-clingfish, a dark deep-sea angler, a silvery beardfish, and a pale Southern cave fish. Each fish is labeled with its common and scientific name, representing different orders within Paracanthopterygii.

Illustration showing six fish species from the orders Batrachoidiformes and Gadiformes, each labeled with common and scientific names: oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau), Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), Pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis), cusk (Brosme brosme), and burbot (Lota lota).

A Sargassum fish, Histrio histrio, camouflaged among floating brown sargassum algae near the ocean surface in the tropical Pacific.

Observe how an Anglerfish uses its unique anatomy to imitate a wriggling worm to lure in prey

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