Species: Parazen pacificus, Parazen, Parazen Dory

Parazen pacificus Kamohara, 1935

Parazen, Parazen Dory

An elongate oval; head and body compressed; head scaleless, bones thin and soft; opercular bones weakly serrated; eye large, ~1/3 head length, less than snout length; mouth large, opens at front, top jaw highly protrusible, greatly expanded at rear; jaws with 1-2 rows small, conical teeth; gill rakers 1-2 + 6; dorsal fin VIII (short, slender) + 26-30; anal fin I (minute), 30-32; pectoral fin 15-16, shorter than eye diameter; pelvics 0, 6-7 (first unbranched), fin origin behind pectoral fin base; scales moderate sized, rough, easily shed, ~90 lateral rows; 2 lateral lines forming an elongate oval, joined at the front and rear.

Pinkish above, silvery below; margin of spiny dorsal black.

Reaches 30 cm

On deep soft bottoms.

Depth range: 145-550 m.

Indo-W Pacific and W Atlantic; Florida to northern S America.