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ANGLER , also sometimes called fishing-See also:frog, frog-See also:fish, See also:sea-See also:devil (Lophius piscatorius), a fish well known off the coasts of See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Europe generally, the See also:grotesque shape of its See also:body and its singular habits having attracted the See also:attention of naturalists of all ages. To the See also:North Sea fishermen this fish is known as the " See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk," a name which more properly belongs to Rhino squatina, a fish allied to the skates. Its See also:head is of enormous See also:size, broad, See also:flat and depressed, the See also:remainder of the body appearing merely like an appendage. The wide mouth extends
The Angler (Lophius piscatorius).
all See also:round the anterior circumference of the head; and both jaws are armed with bands of See also:long pointed See also:teeth, which are inclined inwards, and can be depressed so as to offer no impediment to an See also:object gliding towards the See also:stomach, but to prevent its See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the mouth. The See also:pectoral and ventral fins are so articulated as to perform the functions of feet, the fish being enabled to move, or rather to walk, on the bottom of the sea, where it generally hides itself in the See also:sand or amongst sea-See also:weed. All round its head and also along the body the skin bears fringed appendages resembling See also:short fronds of sea-weed, a structure which, combined with the extraordinary See also:faculty of assimilating the colcur of the body to its surroundings, assists this fish greatly in concealing itself in places which it selects on See also:account of the abundance of See also:prey. To render the organization of this creature perfect in relation to its wants, it is provided with three lohg filaments inserted along the See also:middle of the head, which are, in fact, the detached and modified three first spines of the anterior dorsal fin. The filament most important in the See also:economy of the angler is the first, which is the longest, terminates in a lappet, and is movable in every direction. The angler is
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believed to attract other fishes by means of its lure, and then to seize them with its enormous jaws. It is probable enough that smaller fishes are attracted in this way, but experiments have shown that the See also:action of the jaws is automatic and depends on contact of the prey with the tentacle. Its stomach is distensible in an extraordinary degree, and not rarely fishes have been taken out quite as large and heavy as their destroyer. It grows to a length of more than 5 ft.; specimens of 3 ft. are See also:common. The spawn of the angler is very remarkable. It consists of a thin See also:sheet of transparent gelatinous material 2 or 3 ft. broad and 25 to 30 ft. in length. The eggs in this sheet are in a single layer, each in its own little cavity. The spawn is See also:free in the sea. The larvae are free-See also:swimming and have the pelvic fins elongated into filaments. The See also:British See also:species is found all round the coasts of Europe and western North See also:America, but becomes scarce beyond 6o° N. See also:lat.; it occurs also on the coasts of the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope. A second species (Lophius budegassa) inhabits the Mediterranean, and a third (L. setigerus) the coasts of See also:China and See also:Japan.
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