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What type of fish is this?

http://fun.ql4.org/files/weird_fish/weird_fish_18.jpg I feel I can relate very well to the fish pictured above. I would like to meet one one day... Does anyone know what kind of fish it is? Even the general classification............ thanks for any help :)

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1. Goosefish. They're a family, Lophiidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and continental slope, at depths in excess of 3,300 ft.
2. A monk fish, maybe.It looks like it's a member of the angler fish family. It looks like it has a lure on top of its head.
3. This appears to be some type of scorpion fish. They are bottom-dwellers, where they camouflage themselves to blend with the surrounding habitat and then pounce on smaller creatures who venture too close.