Prickly anglerfish

The prickly anglerfish is a footballfish of the family Himantolophidae, found around the world in the southern oceans, in deep water. Its length is up to 40 cm. It is a mesopelagic species.
A specimen was collected on November 14, 2007. It was a female that was collected east of the Falkland Islands at a depth of. The specimen measured in total length and weighed.
It was first described in 1878 by Frank Edward Clarke as Aegoeonichthys appelii. The species epithet honours Mr Appel who provided F. E. Clarke with a specimen.