Slender Wenchman

Interorbital space flat. Eye large. Pectoral fins not reaching level of anus. Scale rows on back parallel to lateral line. Back and upper sides yellow-orange or pinkish; lower sides and belly silvery white; the caudal fin and the distal edge of the dorsal fin yellowish or orange; the remainder of the dorsal and other fins translucent or whitish.

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 8

Although the habitat is poorly known, most specimens have been trawled from relatively deep water at the upper edge of the continental shelf. Reported to occur on soft or semi-hard bottoms (Ref. 5217).

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