Himantolophidae

Indian footballfish

Himantolophus kalami

No forehead lure

• Marine fish

Himantolophus kalami is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Himantolophidae, the footballfishes. This species was described in 2022 by Melapurra Rajeeshkumar, Theodore Wells Pietsch III and Naryanane Saravanane with its type locality given as the east coast of the northern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. This species is a member of the Himantolophus albinares species complex, a classification partly based on the absence of anterior escal appendages.