Description

Dorsal spines (total): 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 9. Body slender. Head slightly longer than deep. Snout blunt and rounded. Back and sides light reddish brown, lower sides dark gray to black (Ref. 37108).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Trachichthyiformes

Family: Trachichthyidae

Genus: Aulotrachichthys

Species: Aulotrachichthys argyrophanus (Woods, 1961)

Climate Zone

Location

• Southwest Atlantic: off Amazon River mouth, northern Brazil.

Biology

Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Data deficient

Threat to Humans

Harmless