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Melanocetus rossi

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ2476144 ↗
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Melanocetus rossi is a species of black seadevil, a type of anglerfish. The fish is mesopelagic; the only example collected by humans was found in the Ross Sea at a depth of 390 metres (1,280 ft).

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of James Clark Ross (1800–1862), a polar captain, and researcher of the Arctic and Antarctic, for whom the Ross Sea, in Antarctica, where the only known specimen was collected, was named.

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This entry incorporates text from “Melanocetus rossi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.