Classification of Ceratias holboelli
All classifications are based solely on females.
Kingdom: Animalia
Members of this kingdom are multicellular, motile, and
heterotrophic. Animals lack a cell well, which distinguishes
them from plants, algae, and fungi.
Phylum: Chordata
Members of this phylum are deuterostomes and possess a
notochord, dorsal nerve chord, and a post-anal tail for at least
some period of their life cycle.
Class: Actinopterygii
The Actinopterygii is a class of bony fishes. Members of this
class are considered ray-finned fishes because they possess
fins. Their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or horny
spines.
Order: Lophiformes
Holds all anglerfish, so aptly named for their primary method of
predation of using a lure-like appendage to attract prey
Family: Ceratiidae
Primarily composed of anglerfish that
dwell in the deep-sea, more than 1000 meters below the surface.
Genus: Ceratias
Ceratias is derived from the Greek keras or keratos, meaning
“horn” or “horned” in reference to the luring illicium
protruding from the snout with an dorsal or upward facing mouth.
Members possess two or three fleshy caruncles, bioluminescent
glands associated with the anterior most rays of the dorsal fin.
Species: Ceratias holboelli
In 1845, Captain-Lieutenant Carl Peter Holboll (1795-1856) found
an unidentified organism in the deep waters off Greenland.
Holboll delivered the specimen to Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, a
Danish ichthyologist and craniologist who later described the
specimen as Ceratias holboelli (Pietsch).
Common Name:
The C. holboelli was described by the Danish ichthyologist and
craniologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer
and obtained the common name
Krøyer’s Deep Sea Anglerfish.
