Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 17; Anal soft rays: 10; Vertebrae: 41 - 43. This species is distinguished by the following characters: D 17, of moderate height, no filamentous rays in both sexes, penultimate ray usually longest in males (19.7-21.0% SL), fourth or fifth ray longest in females (14.7-17.3% SL), but nearly same length as those at middle of fin, 13.9-20.1% SL in males and females, distal margin nearly straight in both sexes, only slightly concave in males, very slightly convex in females; caudal peduncle length 15.8-17.9% SL; distance from anus to anal fin origin 2.5-3.8 in distance from pelvic fin origin to anus; moderately large head, length 30.5-32.6% SL; large eye with orbital diameter 9.7-11.4% SL; snout length 7.3-8.2% SL; upper jaw length 14.3-16.0% SL; pectoral fin length 20.8-23.5% SL; pelvic fin moderately large, length 27.2-31.3% SL; 6 or 7 scales between anus and anal fin origin; body brown above and white to silvery below with dark edged brown saddles dorsally, becoming red ventrally; dorsal fin is covered with reddish spots, most slightly smaller than pupil of eye, in about four more or less horizontal rows, those posterobasally yellow in males (Ref. 105374).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Aulopiformes

Family: Aulopidae

Genus: Hime

Species: Hime caudizoma Gomon & Struthers, 2015

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

benthopelagic