Description

Head bones and integument are relatively tough; eyes are of moderate size; chin barbels are long and prominent; adults over 30 cm have a pronounced hump-back appearance; caudal fin is absent; the first fin rays of the dorsal pectoral and pelvic fins are very elongated; body color is generally brownish; the fin membranes, mouth and gill chamber blackish (Ref. 1371). This species does not have light organs (Ref. 6187).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gadiformes

Family: Bathygadidae

Genus: Gadomus

Species: Gadomus arcuatus (Goode & Bean, 1886)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Captured together with the commercial red shrimp (Pleoticus robustus).

Habitat

bathypelagic