Species: Kryptophanaron alfredi, Atlantic Flashlight Fish

Kryptophanaron alfredi Silvester & Fowler, 1926

Atlantic Flashlight Fish

Moderately deep body; head moderate, with sensory canals on top separated by broad ridges and covered by skin; snout short and blunt; eye large, its diameter >snout length; light organ under eye with raiseable shutter; mouth moderately oblique; teeth small and conical; dorsal fin in two parts, 1st; with IV spines, 2nd with II, 14, 2nd is twice as high as 1st anal fin II, 10; tail fin deeply forked; scales small, strongly spiny; scales of lateral line and along bases of dorsal and anal fins enlarged; midline of belly with large keeled scales (scutes).

Body, head and pectoral fins black; light organ under eye white, with black raisable shutter; ventral scutes, enlarged scales of lateral line and at bases of dorsal and anal fins white and reflective.

Reaches 13.8 cm.

Depth range: 20-200 m.

Hides in deep reefs during the day, pelagic at night.

Bahamas and the Caribbean.