Short Finned Snailfish

This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: vertebrae 55 (10+45), no pleural ribs; D 49, A 43, P 26, C 9 (principal rays); hypural is unslitted; head small, 17.7 % SL; preanal length 34.0 % SL; body is deep behind the head (119 % lc) and above anal-fin origin (113 % lc), end of tail thin (at about one fifth SL); eye 26.4 % lc; pelvic disk 41.5 % lc; pores 2-6-7-1; pectoral-fin upper lobe short (11.3 % SL), lower lobe slightly longer (13.3 % SL). Colouration: when fresh it is grayish brown with reddish tint; peritoneum black (Ref. 123325).

Dorsal soft rays (total): 49; Analsoft rays: 43; Vertebrae: 55

The sediment from the Agassiz trawl included gray and brown silt and the bycatch was dominated by the holothurians Molpadia sp., Echiura and glass sponges; polychaetes were numerous (not less than 12 species including Travisia sp.). Also gorgonians and alcionarians, as well as ascidia of Culeolus sp., colonies of bryozoans Kinetoskias were few (Ref. 123108).