Longarm Grenadier

Head large; the eyes also large; head ridges well developed; the snout tipped with a blunt tubercular scute. Scales covered with short, rather broad spinules, arranged in 4 to 9 widely divergent rows. Overall color brownish, bluish ventrally on belly; the mouth and gill cavities blackish, but the latter with whitish hyoid area along its posterior margin; the fins dusky or blackish.

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Analspines: 0

Feeds mainly on euphausiids, prawns, and small fishes (e.g. myctophids).

Feeds mainly on euphausiids, prawns, and small fishes (e.g. myctophids).

fisheries: of potential interest