Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 146; Anal soft rays: 112; Vertebrae: 64 - 65. Developed gill raker 4. No scales on head; body scales elongated and at oblique angles to each other. Opercle and preopercle entire. Ventral fins, jugular with 2 separate rays; pectoral and caudal rounded (Ref. 43544).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Ophidiiformes

Family: Ophidiidae

Genus: Ophidion

Species: Ophidion asiro (Jordan & Fowler, 1902)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Oviparous, with oval pelagic eggs floating in a gelatinous mass (Ref. 205).

Habitat

benthopelagic