Author: Bonaparte, 1840
FBname: Shortnose greeneye
Comments: Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom.  Catch data indicate a schooling habit.  Feeds mainly on bottom-living invertebrates.  Also known to feed on pelagic crustaceans like euphausiids, decapods and mysids (Ref. 27637).  A hermaphroditic species.  Marketed fresh and sometimes made into fishmeal (Ref. 6688). Young are pelagic, living near the surface, the adults are demersal, living between 50 and 1000 m depth (Ref. 47377).