Species: Chaunax pictus, Pink gaper, Pink frogmouth

Chaunax pictus  Lowe, 1846

Pink frogmouth, Pink gaper

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.