Scientific Name	Bufoceratias shaoi   Pronounce			by:
Author	Pietsch, Ho & Chen, 2004	Depth	500 - 1200M
Chinese	邵氏蟾蜍角鮟鱇	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	雙角鮟鱇科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F238　Diceratiidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	邵氏蟾鮟鱇
Max Length	10 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	邵氏蟾鮟鱇、深海鮟鱇
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	North East
Habitats	Deep Sea	Holotype Locality	Off northeastern coast of Taiwan, 24°25-50'N, 122°00-10'E, depth 0-800 meters
Synonyms
Reference	Ho & Shao (2019), Zootaxa, 4702(1):10–18.   Pietsch, T. W. etc. 2004
Specimen List	ASIZP0059952Paratype. ASIZP0061796Holotype. ASIZP0062950. ASIZP0804891. ASIZP0914891.
Common Name	Shao's double angler
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body of females short, globular; mouth large, cleft extending past eye; skin covered with tiny close-set dermal spinules; dark brown to black over entire surface of head, body; illicium very long, emerging from dorsal surface of head at rear of skull; second dorsal spine present sink beneath skin of head with age, but remaining connected to the surface through a small pore; anterior tip of pterygiophore of illicium concealed beneath skin. Esca with an elongate, unpigmented terminal papilla, cylindrical and truncated or gradually tapering to a point; escal pore situated at postero-basal margin of terminal papilla; anterior escal appendage divided into several secondary branches, each branch bearing numerous slender filaments; a pair of slender filaments emerging from escal bulb adjacent to origin of anterior escal appendage; a pair of short unbranched anterolateral appendages; a pair of lateral escal appendages, each divided into four or five secondary branches, each bearing numerous long, slender filaments; increased branching and elongation of appendages and filaments with increasing size of specimens; length from base of escal bulb to tip of longest filaments 23-48% SL; proximal parts of all appendages and filaments lightly pigmented, distal ends unpigmented. Illicium length in 25-40 % SL.
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. Adults are meso- and bathypelagic. Ma
Distribution	Widely distribed in Indo-West Pacific from Mozambique Channel to Taiwan. In Taiwan. it is rare occurring in northeastern off Yilan.
Utility	No commercial value.