Description

Dorsal spines (total): 4; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 10; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 9. First dorsal fin elongate and filamentous. Tip of the anterior branch of last dorsal ray branched. Third membrane of the 1st dorsal fin with lunate blotch. Anal fin pale in male, faintly dusky at lower margin in the female.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Callionymiformes

Family: Callionymidae

Genus: Bathycallionymus

Species: Bathycallionymus kaianus (Günther, 1880)

Climate Zone

Location

• Indo-West Pacific: Zanzibar (Ref. 26165) to southern Japan, East China Sea, and the Banda Sea (Ref. 559).

Biology

Found on the shelf edge (Ref. 11230).

Habitat

demersal

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

Harmless