Oneirodes acanthias (Gilbert 1915)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Lophiiformes
- family
- Oneirodidae
- genus
- Oneirodes
- species
- Oneirodes acanthias
description
Southern Spiny Dreamer. To 16.7 cm (6.6 in) SL (Pietsch 1974), perhaps to 20 cm (8 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). West of north end of Vancouver Island (50 ° 13 ’ N, 129 ° 46 ’ W) (Weil et al. 2015) to southern Baja California (26 ° 51 ’ N) (Pietsch 1974). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: concentrated at 500 – 1,250 m (1,650 – 4,125 ft) (Pietsch 1974), and perhaps to 3,290 ft (10,791 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Oneirodes acanthias (Gilbert 1915)