Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 96; Anal soft rays: 66. M. ozawai differs from the other species of the genus by the following combination of characters: head short, snout blunt and short, skull length 5.5% TL, rostral fang with dorsal profile slightly convex forming an almost straight line with frontal profile of skull, dorsal fin origin above myomere number 5, anal fin origin below dorsal fin ray number 40 and pectoral fin about 1% TL.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Saccopharyngiformes

Family: Monognathidae

Genus: Monognathus

Species: Monognathus ozawai Bertelsen & Nielsen, 1987

Climate Zone

Biology

Pelagic, caught in an open ring trawl (Ref. 34506).

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Data deficient

Threat to Humans

Harmless