Deep-sea white anglerfish show a very pronounced sexual dimorphism. With dwarfish males that are fifteen to thirty times as numerous as the females,their first difficulty is in finding the rare females in the expanses of the deep. Once the males attach onto the female, their only role is to transfer sperm and eventually dissolve.

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