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Species catalogue
Yellow goosefish
Order
Lophiiformes
Family
Lophiidae
Marine fish with regularly ossified skeleton. Body disk rounded. Head broad and depressed. Skin smoothly and scaleless, with numerous tasseled, fleshy appendages. Body with dark-brown irregular reticular vein on yellow-brown background on dorsal surface; ventral surface light; underside of pectoral fin dark distally; anal and caudal fins dark; oral cavity pale or dusky, without color pattern.
Characteristics
FAO code
MVN
MVN
Specie
Lophius litulon
Lophius litulon
Type
White fish
White fish
FAO Fishing Areas
- Area 61: the Northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean
Fishing seasons
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International denominations
China
黄鮟鱇
France
Lotte de Chine
Italy
Rana pescatrice orientale
Portugal
Tamboril
United Kingdom
Yellow goosefish
Japan
Ki-ankô
Fishing areas