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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Oneirodidae

Dreamers

WoRMS 125496ITIS 164625GBIF 4216key worms:125496
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164625 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaunax pictus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Oneirodidae
Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Oneirodidae, the dreamers are a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are deepwater fishes found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and it is the most diverse family of fishes in the bathypelagic zone.W CalCOFI holds 361 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2017, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

361
observations
361
records
12
sampling events
1959–2017
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 12 obs · 12 events · 1959–2003 · larva
    name used: Oneirodidae Dreamers · code 991

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125496%22