| Family | Scientific Name | Author | Year | Common Name |
| Ophididae | Dicrolene introniger | Goode and Bean | 1883 | Digitate Cusk-eel |
Dicrolene introniger
Unique Characters: No barbels on snout and chin. Scales cycloid. Pelvic fins placed below preopercle, well posterior to eye, close together, each with 2 well-developed filamentous rays. Pectoral fins with lower rays free. Eyes large, externally visible, diameter equal to 1/2 or more of snout length, orbit large, developed lens present. Head more or less inflated, length about 1/2 preanal length; mouth terminal. Long gill rakers 5 or more. 1 or more median basibranchia! tooth patches. Opercular spine straight, strong and narrow, sometimes hidden, usually rounded in cross-section.
Similar Species: None
References:
(FAO 1999). Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F., and C.R. Robins. FAO species catalogue. Volume 18. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis. No. 125, Vol. 18. Rome, FAO. 178 pp., 136 figs.
Goode, G.B. and T. H. Bean. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology. A treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the Steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Special Bulletin. Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Washington, DC. 927 pp.