[3] It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya in 1990.

[4] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Sala y Gomez Ridge, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

It dwells at a depth range of 540–560 metres.

The maximum known total length, based on a juvenile specimen, is 13.7 centimetres.

[3] The species epithet "parini" refers to N.V.