Description

Dorsal spines (total): 10 - 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 22 - 27; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 27 - 32. Body translucent; median fin bases almost transparent. Confirm number of spines in anal fin; family account says there are none (RF).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Scombriformes

Family: Amarsipidae

Genus: Amarsipus

Species: Amarsipus carlsbergi Haedrich, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

• Indo-West Pacific.

Biology

Young specimens occur above large depths and almost all adult ones are caught with pelagic trawls at 30-130 m during trawling in the deep scattering layers (except one in the South China Sea where one was caught by a demersal trawl during daylight at 760-800 m). This rare species most likely belong to the migrating interzonal complex of pelagic species (Ref. 54802).

Habitat

neritic

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

Harmless