[2] It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya in 2004.

[3] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Marquesas Islands (from which its species epithet is derived), in the eastern central Pacific Ocean.

It dwells at a depth range of 391–408 metres.

Males can reach a maximum total length of 27.3 centimetres.

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