Description

This species is without any body pigmentation in preserved specimens; with brownish peritoneum bearing rare large black melanophores; no bucklers (even small ones) on the dorsal (beyond the boundaries of the neurocranium) and ventral surfaces of the disc; with low blunted apices of bucklers along the edge of the disc and in the caudal region; acicular spines are with narrow bases with one or two points; with a notched upper edge of the illicial cavity, not projecting forward in profile; a short (about half the horizontal eye diameter) subopercular spine; moderate eye (7.5% SL) and a narrow interorbital space (5.6% SL); caudal section of the body constituting 42.5% SL; D without rays (Ref. 123832).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Ogcocephalidae

Genus: Halicmetus

Species: Halicmetus odysseus Prokofiev, 2020

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

bathydemersal