Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 80; Anal soft rays: 52. M. isaacsi differs from all other species of the genus by the following combination of characters: head long with elongate snout and almost straight jaw, skull length 7.0% TL, rostral fang strongly hooked with distal part in a nearly right angle to dorsal profile of skull, anterior dorsal fin ray above myomere number 13, jaw with 4 teeth, max depth of body 9.7% TL, and skin uniformly brown (Ref. 34506).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Saccopharyngiformes

Family: Monognathidae

Genus: Monognathus

Species: Monognathus isaacsi Raju, 1974

Climate Zone

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Data deficient

Threat to Humans

Harmless