#Ceratioidei

[cuproprime]

Fact Of The Day, October 6, 2024:

The males of Ceratioidei, one of the four anglerfish suborders, are many times smaller than the females and only survive by physically attaching to one of them for their entire lives.

[miraphoenix]

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You get one that I just learned last night!

So the popular image of the anglerfish, is of one swimming like a normal fish, with the little lure dangling out in front like a fishing pole, right?

Well, according to a new paper, a lot of anglerfish in the genus Gigantactis apparently don't swim like that! They swim upside down!

All of these fish are alive, and the paper notes that several were approached by the ROV, which disturbed the fish. The fish then swam away, still upside-down. The thought, so roughly stated, is that maybe these fish are targeting prey relatively near the bottom, so the upside-down swimming is to better get the lure near the target prey species.

Citation below, paper's linked above; if someone wants a copy, I've got institutional access. ^^

Stewart, A. L., Pietsch, T. W., Moore, J., & Peng, X. (2023). Upside-down swimming: in situ observations of inverted orientation in Gigantactis, with a new depth record for the Ceratioidei. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15609

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The one messily devoured. XD

Um, more seriously... Probably a black-and-white cookie, or a half-moon cookie? I just like them.

(I know there's technically a difference in the two cookies regarding the cake base and sometimes the frosting choice, but I grew up in a cookie hybrid zone where elements of both the black-and-white and the half-moon are present, so I've used the terms relatively loosely in my life. Whatever name you ascribe to a cookie with a specifically-dense chocolate or lemon base, topped with one part smooth chocolate fondant, and either fluffy or fondant vanilla icing, that's the cookie I mean.)

[seradira]

Tag 9 people you want to know better

Thanks for tagging me, @laguzmage!

Last song I listened to: I'm actually gonna post a few things here since I've been cycling through a lot of stuff, but the literal response is this:

Every once in a while there's an artist that I see around a bunch but never actually think to connect everything I saw from them until I look them up for unrelated reasons, and Aiobahn is one of them. Specifically, I've seen bits of their animations used in memes for a while but only recently looked up the artist properly by chance.

Next up:

It's just... really easy to listen to. I often have it on in the background when I'm on break at work, just to have some background music and to block out noise.

and just to prove I don't only listen to weeb music or video game music, here's the last one

I say Poets of the Fall is not video game music, but some of their singles are actually featured in a couple games! They often get used in Remedy's games, notably The Late Goodbye in Max Payne 2, War in Alan Wake, and My Dark Disquiet in Control. They also do a few tracks specifically for Alan Wake and Control under the name of the in-universe group "Old Gods of Asgard". That said aside from the last bit their tracks are definitely not video game music, and even the ones that show up in games are more akin to pop songs getting put in movies than video game music, in my opinion. I first heard them when I played Alan Wake for the first time, and have been a fan of the group for more than ten years now.

Currently watching: I'm actually awful at watching things, unless I happen to be playing or doing something that takes little enough mental effort I can focus on it, like gathering in FF XIV or playing Elite Dangerous. I've been meaning to watch Bocchi the Rock and finish Witch from Mercury but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Currently reading: I've been re-reading the 2nd Omnibus for Otherside Picnic, which covers volumes 3-4 of the light novels. There's some fun drama in the first half and really good scenes in the second half, so it's a fun time. I've been wanting to read more books, some friends have recommended Gideon the Ninth, the Wheel of Time series, and Kings of the Wyld so I'd like to give them a shot one day, and I've seen stuff about the Black Company series that makes it sound really interesting, so it's also on The List

Current obsession: I've been going crazy on Baldur's Gate and also recently got into Warhammer 40k, so those have been eating up my life. Running a paladin in Baldur's Gate is super fun, and when I need a break I swap over to painting my Sisters of Battle. Behold, the first mini I've ever painted, a Sacresanct Superior!

That's it for me though. I genuinely don't know if I have 9 people to tag, but I'd like to hit @ceratioidei and if any mutuals want to do this and treat it as if I tagged them hopefully that works lmao.

[laurelnose]

it does indeed! the short answer is that the anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) who practice sexual parasitism (only maybe two dozen out of over 170 species)[1] mostly don’t have adaptive immune systems anymore, jettisoning anywhere from half to all of the major histocompatibility complex genes and a lot of the code for T and B cell proteins.[2] while it’s not unheard of for modern bony fishes to drop the MHC class II genes for various reasons (pipefish[3], cod[4], a single monkfish[5]), the general trend is for them to have a far more diverse set of MHC class I genes than mammals do[6]. except in the deep sea, where exists a lanternfish (Benthosema glaciale) sans its mhc1u lineage[4] and the ceratioid anglerfishes.

anglerfishes who practice sexual parasitism have a significant contraction of the MHC class I genes and are missing the proteins that let T cells interact with MHC class I molecules, and species that form consortial matings (2+ males, the record is the Queen of the Deep's eight, yeah this is a huge fucking deal from a histocompatibility perspective) also kick the class II genes as well as both rag1 and rag2 (genes whose absence causes the lethal state of severe combined immunodeficiency in mammals).[2] going hypothesis is that they might have hardwired some of the adaptive upregulation of the innate immune system known to occur in rag1-deficient zebrafish[7], which might explain how they don’t drop like flies from all the microorganisms in the abyssal zone[8] but is not a fully satisfactory explanation for the lack of allograft rejection response, given the differences in which pathways get dropped. Ceratias, a monogamous genus, dropped the mhc1u lineage but significantly expanded the mhc1z lineage,[2] so, like... what gives there? (yeah it does fucking kill my friends who actually work in this field that both in situ and in vivo study of this group are currently impossible, on account of the “lives six miles underwater” thing.)

separately, there’s a good chance immune response changes first and sexual parasitism follows afterwards: all the ceratioids have the famous exaggerated sexual dimorphism and all of them perform some form of attachment, but in most of them the male just bites down and hitches a ride for a bit, then lets go and moves on. given the relative lack of nutrients in the deep sea, the evolutionary trend may be for anglerfishes to drop immune infrastructure for metabolic cost reasons and for full-fusion sexual parasitism to arise to take advantage of it, which would explain why 1) sexual parasitism has evolved 3-5 separate times in this suborder[1], and 2) why Vanhöffen’s whipnose, which does not practice sexual parasitism, also doesn’t have a fucking adaptive immune system.[2]

1. Pietsch, T. W. Dimorphism, parasitism, and sex revisited: modes of reproduction among deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes). Ichthyol Res 52, 207–236 (2005).

2. Swann, J. B., Holland, S. J., Petersen, M., Pietsch, T. W. & Boehm, T. The immunogenetics of sexual parasitism. Science 369, 1608–1615 (2020).

3. Haase, D. et al. Absence of major histocompatibility complex class II mediated immunity in pipefish, Syngnathus typhle: evidence from deep transcriptome sequencing. Biology Letters 9, 20130044 (2013).

4. Malmstrøm, M. et al. Evolution of the immune system influences speciation rates in teleost fishes. Nat Genet 48, 1204–1210 (2016).

5. Dubin, A., Jørgensen, T. E., Moum, T., Johansen, S. D. & Jakt, L. M. Complete loss of the MHC II pathway in an anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius. Biology Letters 15, 20190594 (2019).

6. Yamaguchi, T. & Dijkstra, J. M. Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Genes and Disease Resistance in Fish. Cells 8, 378 (2019).

7. Tokunaga, Y. et al. Comprehensive validation of T- and B-cell deficiency in rag1-null zebrafish: Implication for the robust innate defense mechanisms of teleosts. Sci Rep 7, 7536 (2017).

8. Freeman, M. A. et al. Spraguea (Microsporida: Spraguidae) infections in the nervous system of the Japanese anglerfish, Lophius litulon (Jordan), with comments on transmission routes and host pathology. J Fish Dis 34, 445–452 (2011).

did you know that the well-known factoid that male anglerfishes degenerate after attachment until they’re basically just a pair of testes is false? i knew of course that they don’t just become “growths” on the female because I’ve handled dozens of attached pairs and every male I’ve ever seen has been very much obviously a whole and complete second fish, but I sort of assumed there was internal degeneration, perhaps muscle atrophy, etc. i can’t believe no one ever corrected me on this but this just doesn’t happen. in obligatorily parasitic species, the male actually continues to grow and increases considerably in size after he attaches to the female, because the two of them can only reach sexual maturity together. me, an octavia butler fan: is this the height of romance??

what is true is that attached males do have hugely enlarged testes proportionate to the rest of their bodies & organs, and that they receive all nutrition from the female’s bloodstream so their stomachs are always empty, though their own gills seem to still be functional, as are their fins and muscles—you can even induce movement and swimming motions on recently dead attached males. I can only assume that at some point someone said that basically the only biological function a male anglerfish needs to perform is sperm production and this got taken out of context and luridly exaggerated over time. he’s not just a pair of testicles! he’s her forever partner! one flesh one end!

[amongtheus]

angler fish

The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes (/ˌlɒfiɪˈfɔːrmiːz/).[1] They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure for other fish. The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater,[2][3] that dwell in and around the sea.

Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfish. In these species, males may be several orders of magnitude smaller than females.[4]

Anglerfish occur worldwide. Some are pelagic (dwelling away from the sea floor), while others are benthic (dwelling close to the sea floor). Some live in the deep sea (such as the Ceratiidae), while others live on the continental shelf, such as the frogfishes and the Lophiidae (monkfish or goosefish). Pelagic forms are most often laterally compressed, whereas the benthic forms are often extremely dorsoventrally compressed (depressed), often with large upward-pointing mouths.[citation needed]

Evolution[edit]

The earliest fossils of anglerfish are from the Eocene Monte Bolca formation of Italy, and these already show significant diversification into the modern families that make up the order.[5] Given this, and their close relationship to the Tetraodontiformes, which are known from Cretaceous fossils, they likely originated during the Cretaceous.[6][7] A 2010 mitochondrial genome phylogenetic study suggested the anglerfishes diversified in a short period of the early to mid-Cretaceous, between 130 and 100 million years ago.[8] A more recent preprint reduces this time to the Late Cretaceous, between 92 to 61 million years ago.[7] Other studies indicate that anglerfish only originated shortly after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event as part of a massive adaptive radiation of percomorphs, although this clashes with the extensive diversity already known from the group by the Eocene.[7][9]

Classification[edit]

FishBase,[1] Nelson,[10] and Pietsch[11] list 18 families, but ITIS[12] lists only 16. The following taxa have been arranged to show their evolutionary relationships.[4]

Suborder Lophoiodei

Lophiidae (goosefishes or monkfishes)

Suborder Antennarioidei

Antennariidae (frogfishes)

Tetrabrachiidae (four-armed frogfishes)[13]

Brachionichthyidae (handfishes)

Lophichthyidae (Boschma's frogfish)[13]

Suborder Chaunacoidei

Chaunacidae (sea toads)

Suborder Ogcocephaloidei

Ogcocephalidae (batfishes)

Suborder Ceratioidei

Centrophrynidae (prickly seadevils)

Ceratiidae (warty seadevils)

Himantolophidae (footballfishes)

Diceratiidae (doublespine seadevils)

Melanocetidae (black seadevils)

Thaumatichthyidae (wolf-trap seadevils)

Oneirodidae (dreamers)

Caulophrynidae (fanfin seadevils)

Neoceratiidae (needlebeard seadevil)

Gigantactinidae (whipnose seadevils)

Linophrynidae (leftvent seadevils)

Red-lipped batfishStriped anglerfish (Antennarius striatus

[cerastes]

i’m here to EXPOSE you

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[wyrmmaster]

if you don't mind friend requests on arknights, would i be able to get your name?

I do not mind, just tell me who you are so I know. I’ve gotten a lot of requests and I Don’t Know Most Of These People, Man

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[redwhitebreeze]

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[ryo-maybe]

hey i just got around to reading the manga you shared with the couple separated by the panels and i absolutely have to ask, have you read shuukan shounen girl? it's definitely something you'll want to eat up (especially chapter 10)

I haven’t, but you’re making an interesting pitch here. Lessee...

BOY it’s not like I wanted to be productive today!

[karnilla74]

Gorgeous female Fanfin Seadevil (Caulophrynidae) with a tiny parasitic male attached. It is one of the few times this species has been observed alive.

[green-algae]

A selection of deep-sea anglerfish in the sub-order Ceratioidei. This sub-order currently contains 160 separate species, making it the most diverse vertebrate taxon to exist in the bathypelagic zone and below. Ceratioidei fishes are famous for their bizarre sexual dimorphism, in which the shrimpy little males affix themselves permanently to the flesh of the enormous females, feeding off her blood and providing sperm when needed. Image by Theodore W. Pietsch and Christopher P. Kenaley

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[lisystrata]

Maybe something mythological?

I, too, was once fascinated by the appearance of this creature. I love Ceratioidei. Deep sea anglers look amazing. In our country, this eccentric is called "Sea Devil".

[lemonykleonella]

theres nothing that gets me as mad as when im trying to find different deepsea fish and i search it and 99% od things i get are just. Ceratioidei (its those spooky ones with light bulb attached to their head that attracts prey with light i duno how to explain it properly but theyre probably the most well-known deepsea fish)

OK BUT LIKE SAME ceratioidei is the only deep sea fish I knew till I got to the internet and it frickin sucks. I def know a lot of em, I just... forgot how they’re called, ugh

[wyrmmaster]

given how much manga you've read, have you read any of Radiant? i'd love to know your thoughts on it if you have, or to offer something for your to read list if you haven't.

This’n?

I have not, but I vibe with the description. I’ll add it to my list.

Thanks for the rec!

[sewingscientist]

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