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Lepophidium microlepis
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Lepophidium microlepis

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Lepophidium negropinna
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Lepophidium prorates

Lepophidium microlepis
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Lepophidium microlepis
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Lepophidium
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Lepophidium
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Overview
Main identification features
  • 1 sharp spine front of snout
  • scales: small, round, in horizontal rows, on head
  • ll: most of body
  • pelvics: filaments, below eyes
LEPOPHIDIUM

CUSK-EELS

Elongate, eel-like; head low, compressed; snout with well developed spine at front; tail compressed, tapering to a point; mouth large, broad, nearly horizontal; teeth on jaws small, simple, in bands, outer ones larger, no tooth patch on base of gill arches; dorsal and anal fins low, confluent with tail; pectorals on midside; pelvics each of two small threads inserted under eye; scales round, small, in regular rows, on head extending to between or before eyes, on cheeks and opercle.

A neotropical genus of more than 14 species; occurring on both sides of the Atlantic as well as our region, where there are five endemics.


References
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