Oneirodes macronema

Author: Regan and Trewavas, 1932

Oneirodes macronema Regan and Trewavas, 1932

Status in World Register of Marine Species:
Accepted name: Oneirodes macronema (Regan and Trewavas, 1932) (updated 2009-06-25)

Diagnosis: esca with a stout anterior appendage, shorter than escal bulb, with short filaments near base; a single stout medial appendage, more than three times length of bulb, distally forked and with short branches on stem; a short, digitiform, unbranched posterior appendage; no antero-lateral or lateral appendages.

Habitat, Food, Reproduction: see suborder.

Distribution: only records are the holotype from Caribbean Sea, a specimen from off Hawaii and one from off the Azores.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. One juvenile from 'Dana' St. 4180 (see above).
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

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