Lycogrammoides
{{Short description|Monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish}}
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| taxon = Lycogrammoides schmidti
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| parent_authority = Soldatov & Lindberg, 1928
| authority = Soldatov & Lindberg, 1928
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Lycogrammoides is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. Its only species is Lycogrammoides schmidti, a rare species of the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.{{FishBase genus|genus=Lycogrammoides|month=June|year=2022}}
Taxonomy
Lycogrammoides was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1928 by the Soviet zoologists Vladimir Soldatov and Georgiĭ Ustinovich Lindberg when they described Lycogrammoides schmidti. The type locality of this species is Tauyskaya Bay, off Ol'skii Island in the northern Sea of Okhotsk at a depth of {{cvt|108|m}}.{{Cof family|family=Lycodinae|access-date=13 November 2022}}{{Cof genus|genus=Lycogrammoides|access-date=13 November 2022}} This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.{{cite journal | author1 = Anderson , M. E. | author2 = V. V . Fedorov | name-list-style = and | year = 2004 | title = Family Zoarcidae Swainson 1839 — eelpouts | journal = California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes | volume = 34 | url = https://www.calacademy.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/zoarcidae.pdf}} This genus is the sister taxon to Bothrocara, Bothrocarina and Lycodapus, and these four genera form a clade within the subfamily Lycodinae.{{cite journal | author = M. Eric Anderson | author2 = Duane E. Stevenson | author3 = Gento Shinohara | year = 2009 | title = Systematic review of the genus Bothrocara Bean 1890 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) | journal = Ichthyological Research| volume = 56 | issue = 2 | pages = 172–194 | doi = 10.1007/s10228-008-0086-6}}
Etymology
Lycogrammoides means having the form of Lycogrammus, a synonym of Bothrocara. The specific name honours the Soviet ichthyologist and worker on the fishes of the Russian Far East, Peter Schmidt.{{cite web | url = http://etyfish.org/perciformes14/ | title = Order Perciformes Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Zoarcales: Family: Zoarcidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 6 May 2022 | access-date = 13 November 2022 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}
Characteristics
Lycogrammoides is characterised within the Lycodinae by having 6 suborbital bones and 6, rarely 7, pores.The males have canine like teeth. The flesh is gelatinous and scales extend quite far on to the head, reaching the cheek and nose. There is a pseudobranch, a pyloric caeca, a lateral line, vomerine and palatine teeth while they lack an oral valve and pelvic fins. There are 9 fin rays in the pectoral fin.{{cite journal | author = M. Eric Anderson | year = 1994 | title = Systematics and Osteology of the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) | journal = Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology | volume = 60 | url = http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/PdfViewer/vital:15033/SOURCEPDF?viewPdfInternal=1}} L. schmidti has a maximum published total length of {{cvt|42|cm}}.
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