Hoplobrotula gnathopus (Regan, 1921)
Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 99 - 103; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 78 - 82. Rather elongate body with blunt head; eye almost as long as snout; upper jaws ends well behind eye; 3 sharp spines on preopercle and 1strong opercular spine; 1 median and a pair of basibranchial tooth patches; 5-6 developed rakers on anterior gill arch; pelvic fins inserted beneath eye; precaudal vertebrae 15 (Ref. 34024). Snout spine absent (Ref. 34024). Greenish or pinkish in color (Ref. 4103).
Common Names
Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Genus: Hoplobrotula
Species: Hoplobrotula gnathopus (Regan, 1921)
Climate Zone
Location
Biology
Uncommon species (Ref. 34024). Oviparous, with oval pelagic eggs floating in a gelatinous mass (Ref. 205).
Habitat
benthopelagic