Description

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 9. Body similar to gobioid fishes. No scales on body, but with many well-developed pit organs on head and body. The fan-like caudal fin has many procurrent rays. There is a single downward short spine on the preopercular edge, and many dark-brownish pigments on the caudal peduncle.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Kurtiformes

Family: Apogonidae

Genus: Gymnapogon

Species: Gymnapogon japonicus Regan, 1905

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Sometimes taken by trawl net, and found in the open sea (Ref. 559).

Habitat

benthopelagic