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''Puck pinnata'', the mischievous dreamer,Pietsch, Theodore W. Oceanic anglerfishes: extraordinary diversity in the deep sea. Univ of California Press, 2009., page 124 is a species of anglerfish in the family
Oneirodidae The dreamers are a family, Oneirodidae, of deep-sea anglerfishes in the order Lophiiformes. They are the largest and most diverse group of deep-sea anglerfish, and also the least well known with 16 genera represented by only one, two, or three f ...
known only from the northwest
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
. As with all other species in the family, it is a pelagic, deep-water fish that is a member of the abyssal ecosystem. It is the only known species in the genus ''Puck''.


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* Oneirodidae Taxa named by Theodore Wells Pietsch III Fish described in 1978 {{Lophiiformes-stub