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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).

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Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 380 - 600 m (Ref. 116652). Deep-water

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Western Indian Ocean: High Seas only.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 116652)

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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).

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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: Version 2024-2)

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 = No PD50 data [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): 3.7 ±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 sanjeevani Rajeeshkumar, 2017