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What did monkfish used to be called?

Asked: Mario Gauthier, Last Updated:

To complicate things further the monkfish featured on this page is called goosefish in North America, and headfish in other parts of the world, and used to go under names such as frog-fish and sea-devil which are rarely used now.

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