Description

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 9. Dark brownish dorsally, paler below.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Acropomatiformes

Family: Synagropidae

Genus: Kaperangus

Species: Kaperangus microlepis (Norman, 1935)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found over mud bottom (Ref. 26999). Most abundant at about 200 m (Ref. 6916). Feeds on pelagic crustaceans like euphausiids, mysids and decapods (Ref. 27637).

Habitat

bathypelagic