Dolopichthys
Sign in to saveDolopichthys 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.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderLophiiformes
- FamilyOneirodidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 203
- Family
- Oneirodidae
- Collections
- UWFC, YPM, CICIMAR-IPN, NHMUK, USNM, SIO
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Yemen, Indonesia, Bahama Islands
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- Distribution and habitat
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Dolopichthys 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.
==Taxonomy== Dolopichthys was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1899 by the American zoologist Samuel Garman when he described D. allector. Garman gave the type locality of D. allector as the Gulf of Panama at 5°26'20"N, 86°55'W, Albatross station 3371 from a depth between . The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Oneirodidae in the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish order Lophiiformes.
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