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of the illicium emerges from the skin on the back, behind the head. The males have unpigmented skin between the nostrils, and the inner surface of the subopercle is also unpigmented. The caudal peduncle has no subdermal pigments, and there are between 7 and 13 denticles on the lower jaw. The females
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from 10 to 213 mm (0.39 to 8.39 in), and the published species descriptions are based on females as there are no known morphological character that separate the males by species. The males are free-living and non-parasitic. Male specimens measure between 7.5 and 16 mm (0.30 and
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Mincarone, Michael; Afonso, Gabriel; Di Dario, Fabio; et al. (2021). "Deep-sea anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) from off northeastern Brazil, with remarks on the ceratioids reported from the
Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone".
1157:"Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 2): Families CAULOPHRYNIDAE, NEOCERATIIDAE, MELANOCETIDAE, HIMANTOLOPHIDAE, DICERATIIDAE, ONEIRODIDAE, THAUMATICHTHYIDAE, CENTROPHRYNIDAE, CERATIIDAE, GIGANTACTINIDAE and LINOPHRYNIDAE"
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proposed that the name was given because the fish is "so strange and marvelous that it could only be imagined in the dark of the night during a state of unconsciousness”.
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Ho, H.-C., Kawai, T. & Amaoka, K. (2016): Records of deep-sea anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) from
Indonesia, with descriptions of three new species.
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Prokofiev, A.M. (2014): New and Rare
Species of Deepsea Pelagic Fishes of Families Opisthoproctidae, Melanostomiidae, Oneirodidae, and Linophrynidae.
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1325:"The Ceratioid Anglerfishes of Australia"
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1226:Journal of Ichthyology, 54 (6): 377-383.
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1659:Taxa named by Christian Frederik Lütken
1019:; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016).
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1082:"Family-group names of recent fishes"
234:, the dreamers, a family of deep sea
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1582:63a15302-1df8-4e2f-9425-bd6d04078655
1155:Christopher Scharpf (3 June 2024).
947:"Genera in the family Oneirodidae"
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888:is that the posterior end of the
253:was first proposed proposed as a
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1344:10.3853/j.0067-1975.35.1983.303
717:Bertelsen & Grobecker, 1980
697:H. C. Ho & K. T. Shao, 2004
996:California Academy of Sciences
957:California Academy of Sciences
316:the type genus of its family.
1:
1023:(5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ:
1142:10.5479/si.00963801.1-30.215
312:as its only species, making
283:as off the western coast of
1303:10.1590/1982-0224-2020-0151
1214:Zootaxa, 4121 (3): 267–294.
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909:dreamers are found in the
843:Pietsch & Seigel, 1980
812:Oneirodes theodoritissieri
796:Regan & Trewavas, 1932
786:Pietsch & Seigel, 1980
762:Pietsch & Seigel, 1980
727:Pietsch & Seigel, 1980
707:Pietsch & Seigel, 1980
657:Regan & Trewavas, 1932
611:Regan & Trewavas, 1932
580:Regan & Trewavas, 1932
543:Regan & Trewavas, 1932
498:Regan & Trewavas, 1932
337:Theodore Wells Pietsch III
1099:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1
266:Christian Frederik Lütken
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1185:; Pauly, Daniel (eds.).
902:Distribution and habitat
876:merges from between the
223:of is a genus of marine
1291:Neotropical Ichthyology
982:"Species in the genus
737:H. C. Ho, Kawai &
683:Oneirodes parapietschi
504:Oneirodes dicromischus
405:Oneirodes anisacanthus
333:Barton Warren Evermann
257:in 1871 by the Danish
1603:Paleobiology Database
1392:Oneirodes flagellifer
1163:. Christopher Scharpf
1033:10.1002/9781119174844
1025:John Wiley & Sons
978:Eschmeyer, William N.
943:Eschmeyer, William N.
782:Oneirodes schistonema
748:Oneirodes rosenblatti
627:Oneirodes melanocauda
539:Oneirodes flagellifer
528:Oneirodes eschrichtii
287:. The 5th edition of
273:Oneirodes eschrichtii
164:Oneirodes eschrichtii
41:Oneirodes eschrichtii
1402:. June 2024 version.
1374:. June 2024 version.
1199:. June 2024 version.
1027:. pp. 508–518.
769:Oneirodes sanjeevani
743:(Indonesian dreamer)
733:Oneirodes quadrinema
703:Oneirodes plagionema
663:Oneirodes myrionemus
617:Oneirodes macrosteus
576:Oneirodes heteronema
549:Oneirodes formosanus
454:Oneirodes carlsbergi
428:Oneirodes bradburyae
1321:Theodore W. Pietsch
1256:Theodore W. Pietsch
1021:Fishes of the World
839:Oneirodes thysanema
825:Oneirodes thompsoni
640:Oneirodes micronema
607:Oneirodes macronema
570:& Pietsch, 1998
563:Oneirodes haplonema
523:(Nightmare dreamer)
514:Oneirodes epithales
494:Oneirodes cristatus
475:& Pietsch, 1988
356:Oneirodes acanthias
289:Fishes of the World
1654:Marine fish genera
1364:Oneirodes acanthus
1187:"Species in genus
802:Oneirodes sipharum
792:Oneirodes schmidti
723:Oneirodes pterurus
693:Oneirodes pietschi
597:Oneirodes luetkeni
592:(Krefft's dreamer)
481:Oneirodes cordifer
441:Oneirodes bulbosus
400:(Amaoka's dreamer)
329:David Starr Jordan
275:. Lütken gave the
255:monospecific genus
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758:Oneirodes sabex
713:Oneirodes posti
687:Prokofiev, 2014
653:Oneirodes mirus
553:H. C. Ho &
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