• Adults are rare, pelagic fishes that occur throughout the world's oceans
  • Eggs develop in surface waters for approximately one month
  • Elongate rays are not lost at metamorphosis; the fins do not possess spines
  • 84-96 total vertebrae

The correct identification is: Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae, Trachipterus.
Lampridiform fishes have large, red eggs that are pelagic, and all lampridiform larvae have elongate dorsal and ventral rays. The specimen is identified to family and genus on the basis of vertebral counts. The only other trachipterid genus (Zu) has <70 total vertebrae.