Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 5 - 6. Metamorphosed females distinguished by the following characteristics: long illicium and unique escal morphology; escal bulb with 2 distally bifurcating papillae on dorsal midline, each darkly pigmented and well separated from each other; absence of connecting membrane between anterior and posterior filaments of posterior escal appendage; anterior filament of posterior appendage darkly pigmented in 75-mm specimen; teeth on lower jaw 53-260; teeth on vomer 0-3; dorsal fin rays 7; anal fin rays 5-6; pectoral fin rays 20-21; illicium length 43.9-75.3% SL (Ref. 86949).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Oneirodidae

Genus: Dolopichthys

Species: Dolopichthys danae Regan, 1926

Climate Zone

Location

• Atlantic Ocean: occurring from tropical to temperate waters.

Biology

Also mesopelagic (Ref. 10524).

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless