Species: Microdesmus multiradiatus, Giant worm-goby

Microdesmus multiradiatus Meek & Hildebrand, 1928

Giant worm-goby

Slender, wormlike, body height 3-9% of SL; tail (without fin) 59-63% of SL; eyes tiny, high on side of head, skin covered; mouth large, only weakly oblique, snout blunt and square; lower jaw with convex profile, not strongly projecting; lips very large, with fleshy folds, large free lateral flanges at corners of mouth; teeth in 2 irregular rows, lower jaw with a few canines in outer series; gill opening large (not tubular), about as long as base of pectoral; dorsal fin spines evenly spaced, 74-78 elements, origin over tip of pectoral; anal II, 53-59; pectoral 12 rays; pelvics I, 3, shorter than pectorals; tail fin pointed; dorsal and anal fins confluent with tail fin; scales small, non-overlapping, well separated; body and head scaly except snout and lower jaw; scales with 37 radiating ridges.