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Oneirodidae is a family of deep-sea anglerfish known as the dreamers. They belong to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.
Description
Dreamers have a crown-shaped esca on their heads and some species have slender bodies.
Why they're called that
The Oneirodidae are called "dreamers" because, according to Theodore Wells Pietsch III, they are “fish so strange and marvelous that it could only be imagined in the dark of the night during a state of unconsciousness”.[1]
