Linophryne indica, or headlight angler, is a leftvent anglerfish in the family Linophrynidae, found in the bathyal zone of the Pacific Ocean at depths below 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

A fossil specimen of this species has been found in the Los Angeles Basin dating back to the Late Miocene, some eight million years ago.

[5] Linophryne indica is native to the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans where is occurs in the mesopelagic and the bathypelagic zones at depths ranging from about 150 to 2,000 m (500 to 6,600 ft).

[6] The assemblage of anglerfish included several other extant species, leading the researchers to comment, "Representatives of this suborder are almost completely absent in the sedimentary record preceding the upper portion of the Miocene, thereby implying that the age of divergence of the different ceratioid clades cannot be established with precision.

However, the occurrence of extant genera of the families Oneirodidae and Linophrynidae documented herein clearly suggests that the cladogenesis of the various ceratioid groups occurred well before the Late Miocene.