Zu elongatus (Heemstra and Kannemeyer, 1984) (4 specimens trawled off the western Cape coast) Family Lophiidae – monks Blackmouth angler, Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl, 1797) (Indo-West Pacific south to False Bay) Monkfish, devil anglerfish, Lophius vomerinus (Valenciennes, 1837), syn. Lophius upsicephalus (off Cape of Good Hope; eastern South Atlantic and south western Indian Ocean off South Africa; Bay of Bengal off Burma) Family Ceratiidae – seadevils Deepsea angler, twoclub angler, Ceratias holboelli Krøyer, 1845 (single specimen off Cape Town at 34°12'S, 16°35'E; nearly cosmopolitan in the world's oceans) Ceratias tentaculatus (Norman, 1930) (off Saldanha Bay, off southern Natal, off Delagoa Bay and throughout southern oceans) Triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883 (off Cape of Good Hope, all major oceans) Family Himantolophidae – footballfish Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus Reinhardt, 1837 (all major oceans) Family Melanocetidae – devil-anglers Melanocetus johnsonii Günther, 1864 (off all coasts of South Africa; all major oceans) Order Lophiiformes – anglerfishes Family Antennariidae – anglers Sargassum fish, Histrio histrio (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cape Point to Mozambique) Order Myctophiformes Family Myctophidae – lanternfishes Bolinichthys supralateralis (Parr, 1928) (off Cape Peninsula and in Agulgas current; Atlantic (40°N – 02°S and 32° to 40°S); Indian Ocean (21° – 30°S); west coast of Australia and near Hawaii) Diaphus effulgens (Goode and Bean, 1896) (off all SA coasts) Diaphus mollis Tåning, 1928 (off all SA coasts, broadly tropical distribution in all major oceans) Diaphus taaningi Norman, 1930 (over west coast continental shelf/slope southward to 24°S. Amphitropical species in Atlantic (western sector); tropical waters to 42°N; eastern sector: southward from Mauretanian upwelling region to South African region) Electrona risso (Cocco, 1829) (off east and west coasts of South Africa. Widespread in Atlantic (55°N – 40°S), Mediterranean, Indian Ocean (0° – 40°S), Tasman sea and Cook Strait, and eastern Pacific (42°N – 20°S)) Gonichthys barnesi Whitley, 1943 (off east and west coasts, south of 30°S. Convergence species in all 3 oceans (30° – 40°S)) Gymnoscopelus braueri (Lönnberg, 1905) (circumglobal between Subtropical convergence and Antarctica) Hygophum hanseni (Tåning, 1932) (from 30°S on west coast to 33°S on east coast. Convergence species (30° to 43°S) in all 3 oceans) Hygophum hygomii (Lütken, 1892) (west of Cape Peninsula and off east coast (25° – 37°S)) Hygophum proximum Bekker, 1965) (south to about 37°S in Agulhas current; Indian Ocean (25°N – 10°S)) Lampadena notialis Nafpaktitis and Paxton, 1968 (Off east coast and Cape Peninsula; convergence species in all 3 oceans) Mirror