Western Atlantic Grenadier

Snout short, narrow, bluntly rounded, with broad scutes at its tip and lateral angles, its underside naked. Body scales with numerous, lanceolate spinules in 8 to 10 sub parallel rows in larger specimens. Overall color is brownish black; fins blackish.

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Analspines: 0

Taken as bycatch of deepwater trawl fishery for royal red shrimp of western central Atlantic.

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