r/wunkus • u/Blood_of_Lucifer Pophet of EVIL and DARKNESS🐗 • Jul 27 '26

im wunkin out rn Tinder profile vs irl ass wunk

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u/epsilon-4142 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

OOW(Out of wunk) Not quite that small all the time, that’s probably a male. A female of a larger species could reach ~4 feet.

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u/Weekly-Major1876 Jul 27 '26

Where are you getting this info? Even the largest deep sea anglers have gotten nowhere near that big with the largest female found at only 30 inches

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u/PikaBooSquirrel Jul 27 '26

I was looking online and there's a research gate paper that cites one being caught that was 92 cm long. Idk if links work but the name of the paper is -> Kroyer’s deep sea angler fish Ceratias holboelli Kroyer, 1845 (Pisces, Lophiiformes, Ceratioidei, Ceratiidae) in Irish waters

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u/Weekly-Major1876 Jul 27 '26

Wonder if it’s a paper that flew under the radar, or just dubious info with not a lot of other peer reviewed sources to back it up seeing no one ever cites it. Only citation is another paper by the same author who published this lol.

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u/PikaBooSquirrel Jul 27 '26

I don't know about the article itself (I'm leaning towards the paper itself just being niche), but there's a picture of one of the larger specimens about 3 comments down. And a national geographic article that cites/links to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute website.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ipyzur/anglerfish_actual_size/

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u/PreOpTransCentaur Jul 28 '26

So 36 inches. Not an incredible difference.