Lycodes

Goode, G. B. & Bean, T. H., 1883, Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer “ Blake, ” Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding., Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 10 (5), pp. 183-226 : 208

LYCODONUS, new genus.

This genus is in nearly every particular like Lycocles, from which, however' it is distinguished by the peculiar structure of the dorsal and anal tins.

Diagnosis. - Body blenniform, elongate. Scales small, circular, imbedded in the skin. Lateral line very short, posteriorly obsolete. Eye moderate. Jaws without fringes. Upper jaw longer than lower. Fin rays soft, articulated ; those of the dorsal and anal fins supported laterally, each by a pair of sculptured ectodermal scutes or plates. Caudal distinct ; not fully connate with dorsal and anal, few-rayed. Ventrals present, jugular each composed of a few slender deeply cleft articulated rays. Gill opening rather narrow. Branchiostegal membranes broadly joined to the isthmus. Teeth as in Lycodes . Pseudobranchiae apparently present. Branchiostegals apparently five. Gill arches four. Gill rakers rudimentary, in moderate number. Air bladder and pyloric caeca apparently absent.