Species: Otophidium chickcharney, Ghost cusk-eel

Otophidium chickcharney Böhlke & Robins, 1959

Ghost cusk-eel

Body relatively short, stocky, compressed, tapering to rear; head profile convex above; eye large; between eyes with thin crest under skin, leading to a compressed blade-like spine with points forward and up on snout; no pore just before eye above rear nostril; an extensive groove and pore in upper lip under front nostril; front central pore between eyes is over pupil; mouth large, under slightly overhanging snout; gill rakers: 2-3 rudiments above, 4 short rakers below; opercle with sharp, partly hidden spine, that is slender, nearly horizontal and ~equal in length to pupil; dorsal and anal fins confluent with pointed tail fin; dorsal fin 111-116; anal fin 98-102; tail fin 9; pelvic fin with 2 unequal rays, inserted under eye; lateral line incomplete; scales small, elongated, arranged in basket-weave pattern, none on head.