Description

Characterized by female having simple esca, without distal escal appendages, illicium length 14.0 to 28.8% SL, invariably absent vomerine teeth; escal bulb usually darkly pigmented except distal tip, distal portion oval shaped, proximal portion tapering into stem of illicium; bulb without elevation of small pigment spot surrounding escal pore (Ref. 086949).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Ceratiidae

Genus: Ceratias

Species: Ceratias uranoscopus Murray, 1877

Climate Zone

Location

• Circumglobal: In tropical waters. Western to eastern Central Atlantic. Deep sea (Ref. 4494). Reported from Indian and Pacific oceans (Ref. 58302).

Biology

Also mesopelagic (Ref. 4494).

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless