Talk:Anglerfish

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[edit] Merge proposal

The page on Monkfish explains that the name is used for two types of creature:

• Anglerfish
• a type of shark that looks like Anglerfish

The page explains that Monkfish is more the name for the fish as food, while anglerfish is the more technical name. Therefore, we should:

• leave a very short Monkfish page that keeps the text explaining that Monkfish refers to two types of creature, and that the name monkfish seems to be used more often about the fish as food
• have the monkfish page then refer to the anglerfish page
• merge the cool pictures and reproduction discussion into the appropriate parts of the anglerfish page.

This will reduce confusion, since the two names are mostly used for the same creatures.

I'm willing to do the work; how do we decide whether it's okay to do?

Riedl 12:56, Sep 13, 2006 (UTC)

The way to decide whether it's okay is to do what you did and announce your intent. If we apply the military philosophy "non-response equals concurrence" then we can assume that no responses in the past 3 weeks means that nobody objects (and I don't object as long as no useful content is lost during the merge). I'd say go ahead. =Axlq 20:49, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Concur with Axlq - I saw your initial query and had every intent of circling back around to reply; promptly forgot. Your proposal seems sound; monkfish as a short article with culinary conent, anglerfish as the primary taxonomic article. There's quite a bit of content in both places. Kuru ^talk 21:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I made the proposed changes this afternoon. Please discuss the changes before doing a complete revert of my work.

Actually this partial merge with monkfish is a bit of a disaster. "Monkfish" is a term used to describe Lophius species (and other unrelated fish) in the NW Atlantic. "Anglerfish" is a more generic term and can be used to describe the individual fishes of the order. Thus moving genus and species specific info to anglerfish from monkfish material relating to Lophius was an error as it wouldn't cover the generality which is being covered here. I have corrected some of this and restored some material back to monkfish. Tullimonstrum 22:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

BTW, while scanning for articles without categories, I came upon this one and noticed that it had been vandalized a few days ago. I've reverted it to an earlier version, but I may have inadvertently lost another "valid" edit along the way. If so, I do apologize, but I wanted to let you know, so that you could take a look at the article and ensure that everything's still in place. --Elonka 05:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hairy Angler

There is a new type of anglerfish called a hairy angler. It's name is from the hair like rods or antennae that protude from it's body. The tips are sensitive to movement in the water telling when the next food source comes by and like all other deep-sea anglerfish it has a antenna with bacteria that produce biolumenesence.

[edit] Odd financial sentence

In Japan each fish sells for as much as USD$1500000. The liver alone, considered a great delicacy, can cost USD$1.

"The liver alone" implies it has great worth relative to the rest of the fish, but is actually worth a whopping .00007% of the fish? This sounds ... fishy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.109.37.169 (talk) 10:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC).