Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 73 - 79; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 53 - 57; Vertebrae: 42 - 43. Head without scales; anal fin origin at about mid-body; eye diameter 17.8-18.0 times in HL, snout compressed; posterior end of maxillary rounded, not sheathed by dermal cheek fold, without ventrally-directed process near postero-ventral corner; opercular spine flat and weak; no pore-bearing skin flap on upper angle of opercle; lower angle of preopercle smooth; pectoral peduncle normal, broader than long; no spine on cleithrum; all teeth sharp-pointed, some needle-like; developed gill rakers on anterior arch 3.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Ophidiiformes

Family: Bythitidae

Genus: Acarobythites

Species: Acarobythites larsonae Machida, 2000

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Collected from pools on rocky reefs.

Habitat

associated