The Hymenocephalus kuronumai lives in the benthopelagic, marine, depth range 350 - 500 m environment.
as Hymenocephalus kuronumai Kamohara 1938 - (Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990:230 , Iwamoto & Merrett 1997:518 , Iwamoto & Williams 1999:176 , Iwamoto 1999:1991 , Merrett & Iwamoto 2000:757 , Shinohara et al. 2001:305 , Bray et al. 2006:595 ). More
Kuronuma's whiptail in English
Yaridara in Japanese (日本語)
膨趾膜鱈 in Mandarin Chinese
膨趾膜鳕 in Mandarin Chinese