Description

Dorsal spines (total): 10 - 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 26 - 28; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 26 - 28.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Scombriformes

Family: Chiasmodontidae

Genus: Dysalotus

Species: Dysalotus alcocki MacGilchrist, 1905

Climate Zone

Location

• Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: in tropical and subtropical waters. Known from relatively few, widely scattered localities from the Sargasso Sea to equatorial Pacific at 137°16'W. Eastern Atlantic: Known from four stations within 06°N to 10°S, three of these are within the Gulf of Guinea.

Biology

Oceanic species. Adults have been taken mostly in depths exceeding 1,000 m.

Habitat

bathypelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless