Illicium and Esca:
Long Illicium (rod) with two wormlike appendages as esca (lure, bait) which has a broad medial flap.
Additional Characteristics:
The body is covered with long skin appendages. Spines are thick and joined by transparent membranes. Eyes have skin flaps and protrude conspicuously from the surface of the head. Females are much larger than males. Breeding males have blue lips.
Special Behavior:
Spawning in October (Victoria). Several courting males gather around the gravid female. Females lay about 5000 eggs in a large mass. Rudie H. Kuiter writes: The egg mass consists of numerous single-egg strings attached to a gel disc of about 30mm in diameter. The disc is laid first, the long strings of eggs, each on a long sticky double filament. As the male releases sperm, the female fans the eggs with the caudal fin and posterior sides, trying to spread them out into the back of the cave. During this process the male is expelled. Sticky threads entangle themselves with the surrounding growth on rocks (photos). The female then covers the eggs completly with her side and guards them. The young hatch after about 30 days and settle in crevices at the bottom.
More Information:
Link to fishbase / Pietsch & Grobecker p. 249
Can be confused with:
Rhycherus filamentosus (Tasseled Frogfish) can be easily confused with Rhycherus gloveri or with a stonefish.

Lure of Rhycherus filamentosus - worm-like
Range: Adelaide to Melbourne (Southeast Australia)
Angel von Rhycherus filamentosus - wurmförmig
Vorkommen: Um Adelaide und Melbourne (Südost-Australien)

Lure of Rhycherus gloveri - clump-like
Range: Adelaide to Perth (Southwest Australia)
Angel von Rhycherus gloveri - büschelartig
Vorkommen: Um Adelaide und bei Perth (Südwest-Australien)

Synanceia horrida
Stonefish - Steinfisch

Inimicus didactylus
Devilfish - Teufelsfisch