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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).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino batipelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 960 - 1132 m (Ref. 86949). Deep-water
Distribuzione
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Indo-West Pacific: New Zealand and Tasmania.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.6 cm SL (female)
Short description
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 5; Raggi anali molli: 4. Characterized by having escal morphology: large internally pigmented anterior appendage, its width nearly equal to that of illicium, length including terminal filaments greater than 22% SL; unpaired, highly filamentous medial escal appendage arising from base of terminal escal papilla; short, cylindrical posterior escal appendage; subopercle without indentation on posterodorsal margin; length of ventral fork of opercle 27.6-31.4% SL; ratio of lengths of the dorsal and ventral forks of opercle 0.45-0.47; absence of epibranchial teeth; well toothed pharyngobranchial II; upper jaw teeth 27-34, lower jaw teeth 34-42; teeth on vomer 6; dorsal fin rays 5; anal fin rays 4; pectoral fin rays 16-17; head length 41.4-48.6% SL; head depth 44.0-51.4% SL; head width 31.0-42.9%SL; premaxilla length 34.4-36.6% SL; length of lower jaw 45.6-48.6% SL; length of illicium 16.4-27.1% SL (Ref. 86949).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2001. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of December 2001. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in December 2001. (Ref. 40966)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 3.5 - 5.7, mean 5 °C (based on 31 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 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): 4.0 ±0.7 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).