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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); pterurus: From the Greek pteron, wing, and ura, tail, alluding to the winglike posterior escal appendage of this species.

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Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 1000 - 1400 m (Ref. 40966). Deep-water

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Indo-West Pacific: Halmahera Sea.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.0 cm SL (female)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 6; Anal soft rays: 4. Escal morphology: anterior appendage with a few distal branches; medial appendage represented by a tuft of short filaments; posterior appendage nonfilamentous. Characterized further by having unusually long and narrow subopercle, upper end tapering to a point without indentation on posterodorsal margin; length of ventral fork of opercle 27.3% SL; ratio of lengths of dorsal and ventral forks of opercle 0.56; absence of epibranchial teeth; presence of teeth on pharyngobranchial II; upper jaw teeth 30, lower jaw teeth 39; teeth on vomer 6; dorsal fin rays 6; anal fin rays 4; pectoral fin rays 17; head length 46.7% SL; head depth 46.7% SL; premaxilla length 35.0% SL; length of lower jaw 50.0% SL; length of illicium 26.7% SL (Ref. 86949).

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Pietsch, T.W. and J.A. Seigel, 1980. Certioid anglerfishes of the Philippine Archipelago, with descriptions of five new species. Fish. Bull. 78(2):379-398. (Ref. 26783)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 11 October 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.3 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Oneirodes pterurus Pietsch & Seigel, 1980