Glauert's anglerfish

Glauert's anglerfish (Allenichthys glauerti) is species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Histiophryninae in the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes.

Glauert's anglerfish was first formally described as Echinophryne glauerti in 1944 by the Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley with its type locality given as Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia.

[5] However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Antennariidae, classifying the family within the suborder Antennarioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.

The specific name is an eponym but it is uncertain who this honours, it is likely to be the paleontologist Ludwig Glauert, a curator at the Western Australian Museum in Perth, who collected the paratype.

The crown and the part of back in front of the soft dorsal-fin is dark-brown and the outer margin of all the fins is dark brown.

[8] This species is a temperate and demersal fish found in coastal waters on reefs, although it has been recorded from the continental shelf in depths in excess of 145 m (476 ft).