Spiniphryne, also called spiny dreamers, is a genus of dreamers. Like other deep-sea anglerfish, Spiniphryne lure prey to them by means of a modified first dorsal fin ray with a bioluminescent bulb at the tip. Spiniphryne is unique amongst the oneirodids for being covered in tiny spines.
Spiniphryne, also called spiny dreamers, is a genus of dreamers. Like other deep-sea anglerfish, Spiniphryne lure prey to them by means of a modified first dorsal fin ray with a bioluminescent bulb at the tip. Spiniphryne is unique amongst the oneirodids for being covered in tiny spines.
==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus: Spiniphryne duhameli Pietsch & Z. H. Baldwin, 2006 Spiniphryne gladisfenae (Beebe, 1932) (Prickly dreamer)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).