Atacama Grenadier

Head relatively compressed laterally, surfaces smoothly rounded, suborbital ridge low; snout short, blunt and narrow, terminal and lateral angles not especially set off from adjacent scales. Head completely scaled except for strip ventromedian on snout and ventral margin of suborbital region. Pyloric caeca about 35 to 45. Overall color is medium brown, blackish ventrally; fins, gill membranes, and linings of the mouth and gullet also blackish; first dorsal fin slightly paler near base.

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Analspines: 0

fisheries: minor commercial; price category: medium; price reliability: very questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this family