Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 5; Anal soft rays: 4. Distinguishing characteristics of metamorphosed female: length of illicium 56-87% SL; bifurcated distal escal appendage some distance from base; each primary branch simple and darkly pigmented in small specimens, faintly pigmented in large specimens; length of primary branch 35-40% SL in specimens 3-3.8 cm, 78-83% in specimens 8.6-15.5 cm; unpigmented posterior escal appendage , length 3.5-13% SL; postolateral appendage on illicium 0-5, longest appendage 0-6.3%SL; escal bulb and appendages lacking dermal spinules (Ref. 86949).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Himantolophidae

Genus: Himantolophus

Species: Himantolophus mauli Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Caught in bottom trawls and open pelagic nets in 400-750 m (Ref. 86949).

Habitat

bathypelagic