Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 5 - 7; Anal soft rays: 6. Metamorphosed females distinguished by the following characteristics: length of illicium 134-354% SL; four or five pairs of large, distal escal filaments; 30-50 proximal filaments centered on an anterior margin of escal bulb; absence of escal papillae; relatively short dentary teeth (longest 2.3% SL), arranged posteriorly on four longitudinal series; second and seventh caudal fin rays extremely long (30-47 and 54-76% SL respectively); males unknown (Ref. 86949).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Gigantactinidae

Genus: Gigantactis

Species: Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

bathypelagic