Oneirodes notius Pietsch 1974

Summary:

A uniformly black anglerfish with the illicium (fishing apparatus) emerging just behind the eyes, and the esca (lure) having an anterior appendage usually bearing a compressed papilla and two tapering filaments on the distal end, papilla and filaments unpigmented.

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Oneirodes notius Pietsch 1974

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Distribution	Off Flinders Island, Tasmania to the Great Australian Bight, South Australia, south to Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. Elsewhere, the species occurs in continental to Antarctic waters, and is known from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters. Larvae are epipelagic, juveniles and adults are mesopelagic or bathypelagic.
Features	Females - Dorsal fin I + 5-7; Anal fin 4; Pectoral fin 17-19; Caudal fin 9. Body relatively short and stout, globose. Mouth large, horizontal to somewhat oblique; jaw teeth slender, recurved, depressible, those in lower jaw considerably larger and more numerous than those in upper. Eye small, sub-cutaneous. Gill opening oval, situated posterior to pectoral-fin base Esca with anterior appendage bearing a compressed papilla and several smaller papillae on distal tip, papillae darkly pigmented in specimens larger than about 40 mm SL. Posterior margin of upper portion of subopercle indented to deeply notched; ratio of lengths of upper and lower forks of opercle 0.42-0.54. Illicium (fishing apparatus) exposed, emerging on head from between frontal bones just posterior to eyes; posterior end of illicium protruding on dorsal midline of trunk just anterior to soft dorsal fin. Males - free living
Etymology	The specific name is from the Greek notios (= southern) in allusion to the distribution of this species, apparently restricted to the Southern Ocean.
Species Citation	Oneirodes notius Pietsch, T.W. 1974, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Science Bulletin 18: 70. Type locality: Antarctic Ocean, Bellinghausen Sea, 0-1025 m. [62°13'S, 95°39'W to 62°22'S, 95°53'W].
Author	Bray, D.J. 2024
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Oneirodes notius Pietsch 1974

References

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Paulin, C., Stewart, A., Roberts, C. & McMillan, P. 1989. New Zealand fish: a complete guide. National Museum of New Zealand Miscellaneous Series 19: 1-279

Pietsch, T. W. 1974. Osteology and relationships of ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Oneirodidae, with a review of the genus Oneirodes Lütken. Science Bulletin, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County No. 18: 1-113.

Pietsch, T.W. 1990. Ceratiidae. pp. 210-211 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.141868

Pietsch, T.W. 2009. Oceanic Anglerfishes. Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press pp. i-xii + 1-557.

Stewart, A.L. & Pietsch, T.W. 2015. 120 Family Oneirodidae, pp. 918-927 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152.