What are the characteristics of lantern fish?
The characteristic of lantern fish is that it feeds on the dark seabed. Different from other fish, it relies on its special luminous organ hanging in front of its mouth as bait to hunt. The fleshy protrusion above the head of the bottle fish looks like a small lantern, which is formed by the gradual upward extension of the first dorsal fin of the bottle fish. Relatively speaking, the body length of this fish is 1. 1 ~ 1.9 times the body height, 2.9 ~ 3.6 times the body width and 2.2 ~ 2.4 times the head length. The head length is 3.0 ~ 4.5 times of the kiss length, and the eye diameter is 1 1.2 ~ 17.7 times. The body is scaleless, densely covered with long soft capillaries, and the skin is thick. The head, body and fins are all black, the mouth is black, and only the end of the bait is white.