Richard Lord (fishinfo@guernsey.net)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:10:22 -0000
There's not enough information in the question to provide a straight forward answer.
The New Zealand stargazer, Kathetostoma giganteum, (uranoscopidae) is sometimes referred to as monkfish (to make it appeal to the U.S. market.) In North America and in Britain, textbooks use the name monkfish to refer to the angel sharks, Squatina sp.
Monkfish is a seafood marketing name for the fish in the family, lophiidae (angler-fishes, goosefishes etc.).
In the North-Western Atlantic there is Lophius americanus. In the North-Eastern Atlantic there is Lophius piscatorius and L. budegassa. In Japanese waters, lophids are represented by the genera Lophiodes, Lophiomus and Lophius. The Japanese generally refer to them as 'anko'. The liver of 'anko' is a delicacy. The Spanish call them 'rape' and the French call them 'Baudroie or lotte.'' The Germans call them 'seeteufel'. The Dutch call them 'zeeduivel'. Alan Davidson has a good list of names for the lophiidae "monkfish" in different European languages in his "North Atlantic Seafood" and "Mediterranean Seafood" books (both excellent in my opinion).
There are 25 species in the family, lophiidae, according to Caruso (Copeia 1981 (3): 522-549.)
Yours sincerely,
Richard Lord
Guernsey GY1 1BQ
Great Britain
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McGee Family wrote:
> Can someone please tell me the Latin name for 'Monk fish' and where I
> can find some information regarding this specie's name in different
> parts of the world.
>
> Mike McGee North Kuril Island Russia
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