AnglerfishesTheodore W. Pietsch This tree diagram shows the
relationships between several groups of organisms. The root of
the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to
their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The
basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the
other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time
into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as
internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right. You can click on
the root to travel down the Tree of Life all the way to the root
of all Life, and you can click on the names of descendent
subgroups to travel up the Tree of Life all the way to
individual species.close box The order Lophiiformes contains a
highly diverse array of marine fishes that are primitively
benthic shallow-water dwellers, but have evolved to form several
groups of deep-shelf and slope inhabitants as well as a highly
modified assemblage of open-water, meso- and bathypelagic
species. Commonly referred to as angle