Author: (Goode and Bean, 1896)
Lepidophanes guentheri (Goode and Bean, 1896)
Status in World Register of Marine Species:
Accepted name: Lepidophanes guentheri (Goode and Bean, 1896) (updated 2009-06-25)
Diagnosis: dorsal finrays 14 (13-15); anal finrays 14 (13-15, rarely 16); pectoral finrays 13 (12-14, rarely 11). Gillrakers 4 + 1 + 9 (rarely 8 or 10), total 14 (rarely 13 or 15). AO 6 (5-7) + 6 (5-7, rarely 4), total 12 (11-13, rarely 14). Size: to 78 mm.
Habitat: high-oceanic, mesopelagic. Bermuda: day at 700-950 m; night at 50-175 m, with occasional specimens between 300 and 800 m. Generally: day at 425-750 m; night at 40-125 m, but shallower in the subtropics. Food: no data. Reproduction: generally sexually mature from about 47 mm, exceptionally from 41 to 44 mm.
Distribution: endemic Atlantic: tropical pattern (holotropical subpattern), between 40° N and 50° S (western sector) and between 20° N and 16° S (eastern sector), but isolates from north of 20° N in eastern sector at Madeira; seasonally absent over the minimum region off Brazil.
Eggs, larvae and young stages. Moser et Ahlström, 1972: fig. 8.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.