Species: Batrachoides boulengeri, Boulenger's toadfish, Sorcerer toadfish

Batrachoides boulengeri (Gilbert & Starks, 1904)

Sorcerer toadfish, Boulenger's toadfish

Body elongate, depressed at front, compressed at rear; head broad, depressed, without filaments between eyes; eyes small; mouth strongly oblique, lower jaw projecting; teeth pointed; 2 strong solid spines on upper opercle and 2 more below and behind those; dorsal fin with 3 solid spines, spiny and soft parts joined; dorsal rays III + 28-30; anal rays 26-27; dorsal and anal fins not joined to tail fin; a conspicuous pore at base of 16th-19th interradial membranes on inner side of pectoral fin; 2 lateral lines, the upper broken below posterior third of second dorsal fin and continued below posterior most part of fin as 4-15 pores; no light organs; body covered with small imbedded scales; head and breast scaleless; scales on nape reach to before transverse lateral line canal on rear of head.