Classification / Names
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Teleostei (teleosts) >
Lophiiformes (Anglerfishes) >
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); sanjeevani: Named for V. N. Sanjeevan, former Director of the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE)..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 380 - 600 m (Ref. 116652). Deep-water
Distribution
Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri
Western Indian Ocean: High Seas only.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 116652)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 5; Anal soft rays: 4. This species is distinguished by the following characters: with a simple, long, laterally compressed, posterior escal appendage; a relatively short illicium; subopercle short and broad, ventral margin nearly circular; escal appendage morphology with anterior appendage
internally pigmented, a pair of unbranched, anterolateral appendages, the terminal papilla with a single distal spot of pigment, and a pair of fleshy, stout, medial appendages, each divided distally into two or three (on each side) short, slender filaments (Ref. 116652).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Rajeeshkumar, M.P., K.M. Meera and M. Hashim, 2017. A new species of the deep-sea ceratioid anglerfish genus Oneirodes (Lophiiformes: Oneirodidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Copeia 105(1):82-84. (Ref. 116652)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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