Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Trachichthyiformes

Family: Anoplogastridae

Genus: Anoplogaster

Species: Anoplogaster brachycera Kotlyar, 1986

Climate Zone

Location

• Pacific and Atlantic: tropical waters, from the Sulu Sea in the western Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to north of the Bahamas Islands in the western Atlantic (Ref. 50735); off southeastern USA (Moore, pers. comm.).

Biology

Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Data deficient

Threat to Humans

Harmless