Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chaenophryne draco
Smooth dreamer
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Actinopteri
Order
Lophiiformes
Family
Oneirodidae
Genus
Chaenophryne
Species
draco
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chaenophryne atriconus Regan & Trewavas, 1932, Chaenophryne columnifera Regan & Trewavas, 1932, Chaenophryne macractis Regan & Trewavas, 1932, Chaenophryne melanodactylus Regan & Trewavas, 1932, Chaenophryne parviconus Regan & Trewavas, 1932(Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chaenophryne draco", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24746. Accessed 28 April 2025.