Bulbous dreamer

Oneirodes eschrichtii

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth500–2,250 m
Water temperature2–30 °C
Best monthsApril, July, and September
How commonRare

About this species

The bulbous dreamer, 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.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Bulbous dreamer”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 6 records
February: 6 records
March: 13 records
April: 14 records
May: 7 records
June: 5 records
July: 16 records
August: 13 records
September: 22 records
October: 4 records
November: 6 records
December: 13 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 500–2,250 m · Deepest record: 5,300 m

0–10 m: 4 records
10–20 m: 0 records
20–30 m: 0 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 0 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 111 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 2–30 °C

0–2 °C: 2 records
2–4 °C: 2 records
4–6 °C: 2 records
6–8 °C: 5 records
8–10 °C: 2 records
10–12 °C: 7 records
12–14 °C: 1 records
14–16 °C: 3 records
16–18 °C: 9 records
18–20 °C: 0 records
20–22 °C: 8 records
22–24 °C: 33 records
24–26 °C: 9 records
26–28 °C: 16 records
28–30 °C: 35 records

Names and classification

English: Bulbous dreamer, Twopole dreamer, cosmopolitan dreamer, Cosmopolitan Dreamtail, Eschricht's Anglerfish

Names in 2 more languages

French: Queue-de-rêve cosmopolite
Japanese: Himerakudaanko, ヒメラクダアンコウ

Other scientific names: Dolopichthys brevifilis, Dolopichthys cirrifer, Dolopichthys claviger, Dolopichthys diadematus, Dolopichthys digitatus, Dolopichthys frondosus, Dolopichthys hibernicus, Dolopichthys megaceros, Dolopichthys multifilis, Dolopichthys obtusus, Dolopichthys pennatus, Dolopichthys plumatus, Dolopichthys pollicifer, Dolopichthys ptilotus, Dolopichthys simplex, Dolopichthys tentaculatus, Dolopichthys thysanophorus, Oneirodes eschrichti, Oneirodes megaceros

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
280 open-data records from 1928 to 2021.

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