Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 6 - 7; Anal soft rays: 6 - 7. Metamorphosed females distinguished by the following characteristics: have branched distal escal filaments, 3 slender filaments on and below anterior margin of escal bulb, and several similar filaments on and below posterior margin of escal bulb; length of illicium 175-200% SL; escal papillae absent; relatively long dentary teeth (largest 4.0-4.5% SL), arranged in two, possibly three, very irregular longitudinal series; caudal fin rays less than 35% SL (Ref. 86949).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Gigantactinidae

Genus: Gigantactis

Species: Gigantactis golovani Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Also mesopelagic (Ref. 10761).

Habitat

bathypelagic