Prickly Angler Fish
Echinophryne crassispina
- Usual depth3–37 m
- Water temperature15–20 °C
- Best monthsMarch, July, and September
- How commonRare
Photo credit: (c) Jennie Pistevos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
About this species
Echinophryne crassispina, the prickly anglerfish, prickly frogfish or thick-spined anglerfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Histiophryninae in the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. These fishes are endemic to the temperate waters of southern Australia.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Echinophryne crassispina”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 7 records
- February: 5 records
- March: 14 records
- April: 5 records
- May: 3 records
- June: 9 records
- July: 11 records
- August: 6 records
- September: 10 records
- October: 4 records
- November: 4 records
- December: 6 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 3–37 m · Deepest record: 55 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 15–20 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Prickly Angler Fish, prickly frogfish, Thick-spined Anglerfish
Similar species
- Mitchell's frogfish
Echinophryne mitchellii
- Reynold's Anglerfish
Echinophryne reynoldsi
marble-mouthed frogfishLophiocharon lithinostomus
- Glauerts Anglerfish
Allenichthys glauerti
- Bougainville's Anglerfish
Histiophryne bougainvilli
- cryptic frogfish
Histiophryne cryptacanthus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 45 open-data records from 1954 to 2006.
- Species data updated November 2, 2026.
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