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Bulbous dreamer

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Lophiiformes
Family:	Oneirodidae
Genus:	Oneirodes
Species:	M. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. Anglerfish are the members of the order Lophiiformes. They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of Predation, wherein a fleshy The dreamers are a family Oneirodidae, of Deep-sea anglerfishes in the order Lophiiformes. eschrichtii

Binomial name

Melanocetus eschrichtii
Lütken, 1871

The bulbous dreamer, Oneirodes eschrichtii, is a dreamer of the family Oneirodidae, found in all oceans, in deep water. In Biological classification, family ( Latin The dreamers are a family Oneirodidae, of Deep-sea anglerfishes in the order Lophiiformes. Its length is up to 28 cm for males and up to 21 cm for females.

Female bulbous dreamers have scaleless round bodies with a large forward directed mouth full of very small teeth, a folding lure at the tip of the snout, and a distinctive tentacle-like appendage in the middle of the back. In most biological nomenclature a scale ( Greek lepid, Latin squama) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an Animal The much smaller males lack teeth, lure, and gut.

Males are free swimming when young but before they mature these small fishes attach themselves permanently to the hind body of the female and become parasitic. Their blood supply becomes continuous with that of the female and most of the internal organs degenerate: they become simply appendages to supply sperm when required.

Coloration is a uniform black.

References

"Oneirodes eschrichtii". Anglerfish are the members of the order Lophiiformes. They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of Predation, wherein a fleshy FishBase. FishBase is a comprehensive Database of information about Fish. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N. p. : FishBase, 2006.
Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8

Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar)

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