Description:
A small (5cm/ 2 inch) anchovy-like fish. Scales
large. Eye extremely large, almost the distance between upper lip and top
of head. Mouth large, anterior, extending fully beneath, but not past
posterior rim of eye. Pectoral fins clear, acute, and about 25% of
head-body length. Anterior dorsal large, posterior dorsal vestigial.
Three lamps along lateral line, one on lower gill
arch, and a fifth and sixth along base of tail. Lamps tiny, much smaller
than eye.
