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Chaenophryne

Chaenophryne is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep-sea anglerfishes. These predatory, deep-sea fishes are found in the tropical and subtropical oceans around the world. Like other deep-sea anglerfishes, they are sexually dimorphic, with the matamorphosed females dwarfing the metamorphosed males. The males are not sexual parasites.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Longhead Dreamer

speciesChaenophryne longiceps

Smooth Dreamer

speciesChaenophryne draco

Chaenophryne quasiramifera

speciesChaenophryne quasiramifera

Chaenophryne ramifera

speciesChaenophryne ramifera

Smooth Dreamer

speciesChaenophryne melanorhabdus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87334.