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Barbel about 3 times in SL in small specimens, 6 times in larger ones, its stem black; tip of barbel unpigmented, slender, with anopaque axis with a black spot at its distal end and two narrow, transparent, flattened wings, each containing a row of discrete opaque bodies, no filament at distal end. Dorsal-fin rays 13–15. Photophores in ventral row between pectoral- and pelvic-fin insertions (PV) 27–29.
Color of head and body black; no prominent round white spots on head.
In the North Atlantic west of 45° W between about 25° and 35° N; western tropical and subtropical Atlantic from about 10° N to 10° S.
Meso- to bathypelagic.
Gibbs RH, Jr. 1984. Melanostomiidae. In: Whitehead PJP, Bauchot M-L, Hureau J-C, Nielsen J, Tortonese E, editors. Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Paris: UNESCO. p 341–365.
Body moderately long, its depth less than 10 times into SL. Head with short, blunt, ronded snout; lower jaw not longer than upper jaw, not curved strongly upward. Pectoral fin with 5–6 rays, all about equal in length, unbranched distally, and without lumps of luminous tissue; pelvic fins low on body, their insertaion close together near mid-ventral line; bases of dorsal and anal fins about equally long, their origins appraximately opposed; no dorsal adipose fin. Photophores in ventral row between pectoral- and pelvic-fin inseration (PV) 26–29; no pale loop or line on flank; postorbital photophore large, as long as width of eye and approximately triangular in shape; no anterior orbital photophore. No Large patches of luminescent tissue behind eye.
To about 25 cm.
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North Atlantic.
Syntypes: BMNH 1029.7.6.146 (1); ZMUC P202010-12 (3).
