Lophius budegassa

Lophius budegassa, the blackbellied angler or blackbellied monkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goosefishes, monkfishes and anglers. This species is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Lophius budegassa

riblje-oko.hr · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophiusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lophiiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lophiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lophiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya7.7 Mya1.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Lophius budegassa on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Raz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°W

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The named rock units Lophius budegassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lophius budegassa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lophius budegassa

Credit
riblje-oko.hr
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lophius budegassa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spinola 1807