Ophidiidae (Cusk-eels), subfamily: Neobythitinae |
17.5 cm TL (male/unsexed) |
bathydemersal; depth range 560 - 990 m |
Western Pacific: southeern Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. |
Snout rather blunt; eye diameter almost as long as snout; opercular spine strong and straight; hind margin of preopercle usually with 3 sharp spines; 2 median and a pair of basibranchial tooth patches; pseudobranchial filaments 2 or 3; 7-15 developed rakers on anterior arch; lower 5-11 pectoral fin rays free and longer than upper ones; precaudal vertebrae 13-16 (Ref. 34024). |
Uncommon species (Ref. 34024). Oviparous, with oval pelagic eggs floating in a gelatinous mass (Ref. 205). |
Not Evaluated
(Ref. 96402)
|
harmless |
Also Ref. 559. |
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