Bighead Grenadier

Head large, completely scaled except for the exposed posterior end of the preopercle and gill membranes. Snout short, bluntly pointed. No suborbital ridge developed; scales spinules numerous, small, sharp, conical, in irregularly divergent to roughly quincunx pattern. Pyloric caeca 12 to 16. Overall color is brown or grayish brown; fins somewhat darker.

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Analspines: 0

Found on the continental slope (Ref. 75154). Feeds on cephalopods, at least at larger sizes.

Feeds on cephalopods, at least at larger sizes.

fisheries: of potential interest