Scientific Name	Melanocetus johnsonii   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Günther, 1864	Depth	0 - 2091M
Chinese	約氏黑鮟鱇	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	黑鮟鱇科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F236　Melanocetidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	約氏黑犀魚
Max Length	18 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	深海鮟鱇
Distribution in World	global	Distribution in Taiwan	North East
Habitats	Ocean、Deep Sea、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Sea of Madeira, eastern Atlantic
Synonyms	Centrocetus spinulosus, Melanocetus cirrifer, Melanocetus ferox, Melanocetus johnsoni, Melanocetus krechi, Melanocetus megalodontis, Melanocetus rotundatus, Melanocoetus rotundatus, Xenoceratias braueri, Xenoceratias brevirostris, Xenoceratias heterorhynchus, Xenoceratias laevis, Xenoceratias micracanthus ...all 13..
Reference	Ho & Shao (2019), Zootaxa, 4702(1):10–18.   Theodore W. Pietsch etc. 1971 Pietsch, T. W. etc. 1980 Nakabo T. 2002 何宣慶 2002
Specimen List	ASIZP0059765. ASIZP0064426.
Common Name	Blackdevil; Humpback angerfish
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Females with body short, globle; mouth large, cleft extending past eye, oblique or vertical; eye small; illicium short; esca simple, with anterior and posterior crests; anterior margin of vomer nearly straight; upper and lower jaws with numerous slender, recurved and depressible teeth; vomerine teeth present; skin covered with tiny close-set dermal spinules, appearing naked; dark brown to black over entire surface of head, body, fins, and oral cavity; sphenotic spines absent. D 13; A 4; P 16; C 8. Upper jaw teeth 65; lower jaw teeth 60. Illicium length 34.5 in %SL, escal width 3.9, head length 27.6, head depth 45.7, premaxillary length 34.5, lower jaws 34.5, the narrowest distance between front 13.8.
habitats	Marine. First dorsal spine of female highly modified into a long rod with a light organ in the tip call illicium and esca, the esca containing bacteria as luminous symbiont, its function in attracting prey. Oviparous, larvae habits in the upper, food-rich
Distribution	Adults are meso- and bathypelagic from about 250m to bellow 3000m with a wide geographic distribution in tropical and subtropical waters of all three major ocean of the world.
Utility	No commercial value.