| Lasiognathus | |
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| Lasiognathus amphirhamphus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Thaumatichthyidae |
| Genus: | Lasiognathus Regan, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| Lasiognathus saccostoma Regan, 1925
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| Occurrences of Lasiognathus | |
Lasiognathus, the wolftrap anglerfish, is a genus of deep-sea anglerfish in the family Thaumatichthyidae, with six species known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Like its sister genus Thaumatichthys, it is distinct from other anglerfish for an enormous upper jaw with premaxillaries that can be folded down to enclose the much shorter lower jaw.[1] Its lure apparatus appears to consist of a "complete" fishing rod; the projecting basal bone or pteropterygium being the rod itself; the illicium, a modified dorsal fin ray) being the fishing line; the bioluminescent esca as bait; and hook-like enlarged dermal denticles).