(Family):Eye large without lens (Ipnops), minute or sometimes vestigial (Bathymicrops). Scales present on cheeks, sides of head, body and base of caudal fin. Lateral line ends at base of mid-caudal rays. Photophore and adipose fin absent. (Genus):Top of head with scales. Eye minute with lens. Jaws, vomer and palatine with villiform teeth bands. A long gill raker on angle of arch, others are palte-like. (Species):Minute eye present and pigmented with lens covered with skin but not with scales. Pectoral rays 12 or 13, dorsal rays 12 or 13, anal rays 13 or 14, lateral-line scales 64 or 65. Body blackish brown, fins and branchiostegal membrane black.
Distribution:
This species in known from off Honduras, Strait of Florida and deeper water in the central Gulf of Mexico.
Remarks:
Meristic characters and eye covered with skin distinguish the present species from other fish of the genus. (Miyake and Aizawa)