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wrote. speciation has produced a great diversity of protruding lights and rods. some anglerfish have a long barbell extending from the lower jaw as well as a rod above. one species, lasiognathus saccostoma, bears not only a movable rod but extending from it a line, a float, a lighted bait and three hooks
. the hooks, dr. idyll wrote, "are, alas, not actually for catching prey" but simply ornamental. anglerfish, he noted, are "rarely as large as a man's fist." but one specimen, from a depth of miles off west africa, was a foot and a half long. it was also unusual in having its glowing bait conveniently...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/science/anglerfish-bioluminescence-deep-sea.html