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BAC26211 Schouten, Peter. Elsman's Whipnose Gigantactis elsmani. Original artwork from Astonishing animals. 2003. Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper, 455 x 615mm, mounted but not framed, signed and dated by artist. Page 200 (Gigantactis elsmani) Gigantactis means giant touching device' in Latin, in reference to the extraordinary nose-mounted fishing poles possessed by these curious anglerfish. As recently as 1968 fewer than thirty adult whipnoses of all species (of which there were then ten known) had been collected, and even today these large, predatory deepwater fish are little known. A chance encounter with a Japanese submersible revealed that Elsman's whipnose swims upside down with its lantern in front of it. just above the ocean bottom, perhaps to lure worms from their burrows. It has weak eyes, which may be compensated by an acute sense of smell, the males particular having prodigious nostrils:
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