The Dicrolene kanazawai lives in the bathydemersal, marine, depth range 1375 - 2342 m environment.
— Dicrolene kanazawai differs from all other species of the genus in the length of the opercular spine, the additional small spine at the angle of the preopercle, the larger number of pectoral rays, and in having most of the upper rays of this fin longer than More