| Family | Scientific Name | Author | Year | Common Name |
| Zoarcidae | Lycodonus mirabilis | Goode & Bean | 1883 | Amazing Eelpout |
Lycodonus mirabilis
Unique Characteristics: The body is shaped much as in Lycenchelys verrillii; its greatest height, at origin of dorsal, contained about 18 times in the- length of the body. Scales as in Lycodes, the scales not extending out upon the fins. The head and nape are also scaleless. Lateral line apparently obsolete posteriorly, not extending back of the extremity of the pectoral.
The length of the head is contained about 7 times in the entire length. The diameter of the eye is contained 2 1/2 times in the length of the head, and is about equal to the postorbital portion of the head. The eye is placed high, the width of the interorbital space being less than the diameter of the pupil, and contained 3 1/2 times in the long diameter of the eye. Nostrils immediately in front of the eye. The maxilla extends to the vertical through the anterior margin of the pupil; the mandible, to a little behind the vertical through the posterior margin of the pupil.
The dorsal tin is inserted slightly behind the vertical through the base of the pectoral; the portion of the tin present in the mutilated specimen before us contains 80 articulated rays. The first 10 or 11 scutes do not support rays, but whether rays were originally present or not can not be ascertained. The longest dorsal ray is about equal to the longest anal ray, its length being contained about 3 times in that of the head. The distance of the vent from the snout is twice the length of the head; the anal begins immediately behind the vent; it consists at present of about 70 articulated rays. The caudal rays extend beyond the tips of the ultimate dorsal and anal rays; they are about 9 in number.
The distance of the ventral from the snout is equal to twice the length of the upper jaw; middle ventral ray is the longest, it being half as long as the postorbital part of the head. The length of the pectoral equals three times that of the snout. Radial formula: D. 80+ ; A. 70+; C. 9; P. 18; V. 3 (Goode and Bean 1896).
Similar Species: None
References:
Goode, G.B. and T.H. Bean. 1895 (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. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Special Bulletin. No. 30.
Koefoed, E. 1927. Fishes from the sea bottom, from the Michael Sars North Atlantic Deep Sea Expedition, 1910. Environment and Natural History Publications. 10. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/envir_publications/10.