Description

Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 4. Distinguishing characteristics of metamorphosed female: pair of distal esca appendages; illicium length 19.1 to 28.2% SL; presence of 2-6 vomerine teeth in large specimens; darkly pigmented proximal one-half to two-thirds of escal bulb, oval shaped distal portion, proximal portion tapering into stem of illicium; 2 slender escal appendages arising anterior to escal pore, each appendage nearly always bifurcate, trifurcate or multibranched; escal pore at apex of bulb, raised on pigmented papilla in specimens 75 mm and larger (Ref. 86949).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Ceratiidae

Genus: Ceratias

Species: Ceratias tentaculatus (Norman, 1930)

Climate Zone

Location

• Southern Ocean. Also known from Mozambique and South Africa.

Biology

Majority of collected materials taken by trawls that reaches maximum depth of greater than 650m (Ref. 86949).

Habitat

bathydemersal

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless