Species: Chaunax pictus, Pink Frogmouth, Pink Gaper, Uniform Gaper

Chaunax pictus Lowe, 1846

Uniform Gaper, Pink Gaper, Pink Frogmouth

Body rounded, slightly compressed, tapering to a small, rounded tail; head large, globular, cuboid; eyes high on side of head, covered with a clear skin window; mouth large, strongly oblique to ~vertical; teeth small, slender, sharp; gill opening small; dorsal fin in 2 parts: 1st is a single spine modified as an angling lure in a scaleless, oval depression on snout, lure is a short stalk with a dense cluster of short threads like a short mop,2nd & 3rd spines not externally visible, snout cavity strongly concave; soft dorsal on rear of body, 10-12; anal fin 0, 7 (6-7); pectorals behind mid-body, 13-14 (12-15); skin very loose, flaccid, covered with minute spine-like denticles, those fine and densely packed; single open lateral line from base of tail fin to head, there with prominent canals, & connections to branches under eye, to chin along lower side of body to over pectorals, main part on upper body with 29-42 pores, continues with 11 (10-13) on head.

Head & body rosy red to orange red, back may have yellow spots, belly and fins darker red; snout cavity for lure dark brown or black; lure with pale orange stalk & thread cluster blue-black at front, white behind.

Reaches 40 cm

On soft and hard bottoms

Depth range 200-1183 m

Atlantic and Indo-west Pacific; New York to the Amazon