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bulbous dreamer

Oneirodes bulbosus

Classification

The bulbous dreamer (Oneirodes eschrichtii), or cosmoplitan dreamer, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep-sea anglerfishes. This fish has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and temperate oceans. Taxonomy The bulbous dreamer was first formally described in 1871 by the Danish zoologist and naturalist Christian Frederik Lütken with its type locality given as off the western coast of Greenland.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 3