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Oneirodidae (Dreamers)
Etymology: Oneirodes: Greek, 'oneiros' = a dream or dreamlike or out of a dream (suggesting this fish is so strange and marvelous that can exist only in dreams) (Ref. 86949); alius: The name alius is an adjective in apposition from the Latin, meaning another, alluding to the seemingly never-ending number of new forms being discovered within the genus.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 575 - 1200 m (Ref. 39614). Deep-water
Indo-West Pacific: only from Halmahera Sea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.8 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 39614)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 5 - 7; Anal soft rays: 4. Characterized by having escal morphology: esca with single elongate tapering anterior appendage, 33.3-43.0% SL, without internal pigment; pair of filamentous medial appendages; rounded terminal escal papilla with two bilaterally placed distal pigment spots; short, unpigmented, anteroposteriorly compressed posterior escal appendage; lateral and anterolateral escal appendages absent; large, elongate subopercle with dorsal end tapering to a point, without indentation on posterodorsal margin; length of ventral fork of opercle 30.3-32.3% SL; ratio of lengths of the dorsal and ventral forks of opercle 0.44-0.52; absence of epibranchial teeth; presence of teeth on pharyngobranchial II; upper jaw teeth 28-32, lower jaw teeth 33-37; teeth on vomer 6; dorsal fin rays 5-7; anal fin rays 4; pectoral fin rays 15-16; head length 50.0% SL; head depth 43.0-48.5% SL; premaxilla length 38.0% SL; length of lower jaw 47.5% SL; length of illicium 26.5-35.5% SL (Ref. 86949).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Seigel, J.A. and T.W. Pietsch, 1978. A new species of the ceratioid anglerfish genus Oneirodes (Pisces: Lophiiformes) from the Indo-west Pacific. Copeia 1978(1):11-13. (Ref. 39614)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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