iXSSSi® Holt and Bryne 
Lyconus brachycolus HOLT and BRYNE, 
—GILBERT and HUBBS, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 51, p. 143, 
1916 (name). 
Genus Sgualogadus Gilbert and Kubbs 
GILBERT and HUBBS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, 
P. (143) 156, 1917. (Type Sgualogadus modificat us GILBERT and 
HUB BS, o rtho typic•) 
Body large and massive forward, long tail tapering slenderly. 
!L e ; olUikWly. Head ellipsoid, rounded, cavernous and 
flabby, without ridges, greatly exceeding very short trunk. Snout globose, 
massive. Eye small, lateral, high,, advanced. Mouth small, inferior, behind 
eye. No barbel. Teeth minute, in bands in jaws only. Interorbital wide, 
high and convex. Lateral line with a few scattered pore*. Gill membranes 
free from isthmus, joined anteriorly. Gills 4, on short arches, first free, 
without fold of membranes, slit behind last. Gill rakers slender, lanceolate 
Pseudobranchiae short. Branchiostegals 7. Scales small, finely spinescent, 
irregular on head. Dorsal and anal long, rather low, confluent. Paired fins 
sma11. 
