Species: Parophidion schmidti, Dusky cusk-eel, Dusky cusk

Parophidion schmidti (Woods & Kanazawa, 1951)

Dusky cusk, Dusky cusk-eel

Elongate, compressed; head bluntly pointed; eye large; operculum with a hidden spine; numerous pores all over head; a small bony bump on snout; a broad fleshy extension of skin above top jaw; inside of top and bottom lips minutely wrinkled; teeth small, curved, larger at rear of jaws; teeth on front and sides of roof of mouth small and blunt; opercle with sharp, partly hidden spine; gill rakers - 2 rudiments above, 4 rakers below; pelvic fin with 2 rays of nearly equal length, inserts under eye; dorsal fin ~120; anal fin ~100-120; pectoral fin 20; lateral line ends well behind anus; scales on body elongate, in basket-weave arrangement, obliquely overlapping; cheeks and top of head to between eyes scaled, those on top of head large; operculum without scales.