Oneirodes

Oneirodes is a genus of 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 around the world. This is the type genus, and the most speciose genus, of the family Oneirodidae. They are sexually dimorphic but, like most taxa within their family, the small males are free living and are not sexual parasites on the larger females. Only the females are used to identify the species in this genus as no species specific characters have been found for males.

==Taxonomy== Oneirodes was first proposed proposed as a monospecific genus in 1871 by the Danish zoologist and naturalist Christian Frederik Lütken when he described Oneirodes eschrichtii. Lütken gave the type locality of O. eschrichtii as off the western coast of Greenland. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Oneirodidae in the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish order Lophiiformes. Theodore Gill named the family Oneirodidae in 1878 with O. escherichtii as its only species, making Oneirodes the type genus of its family.