Biology:Oneirodes sanjeevani
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| Oneirodes sanjeevani | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Oneirodidae |
| Genus: | Oneirodes |
| Species: | O. sanjeevani
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| Binomial name | |
| Oneirodes sanjeevani Rajeeshjumar, 2017
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Oneirodes sanjeevani is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep sea anglerfishes[1] known by a single specimen which was described in March 2017. The holotype was recovered by midwater trawling in the Indian Ocean west of the Maldives at 00.87°S, 67.59°E from a depth between 380 and 600 meters.[2] The holotype, a female,[1] has a standard length of 6.9 cm (2.7 in), with 5 soft rays in its dorsal fin and 4 in its anal fin.[3] It is named in honor of Dr. V. N. Sanjeevan, who was the Director of the Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology in Kochi, Kerala, southern India.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rajeeshkumar, M. P.; Meera, K. M.; Hashim, M. (March 2017). "A New Species of the Deep-Sea Ceratioid Anglerfish Genus Oneirodes (Lophiiformes: Oneirodidae) from the Western Indian Ocean" (in en). Copeia 105 (1): 82–84. doi:10.1643/CI-16-467. ISSN 0045-8511. http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1643/CI-16-467.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Oneirodes". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Oneirodes.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). "Oneirodes sanjeevani" in FishBase. June 2024 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf (3 June 2024). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 2): Families CAULOPHRYNIDAE, NEOCERATIIDAE, MELANOCETIDAE, HIMANTOLOPHIDAE, DICERATIIDAE, ONEIRODIDAE, THAUMATICHTHYIDAE, CENTROPHRYNIDAE, CERATIIDAE, GIGANTACTINIDAE and LINOPHRYNIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. https://etyfish.org/lophiiformes2/.
Wikidata ☰ Q98077741 entry
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