Coryphaenoides Gunnerus, 1765
Body tapering evenly to pointed tail; head large, usually fully scaled. Snout prominent, often with a well-armed scute at tip and angles and a more or less distinct sub-orbital ridge extending back below eye, but not to preopercular ridge; eye moderate or large; mouth inferior, small, teeth pointed, in various patterns; chin barbel present. Gular and branchiostegal membranes scaleless, the latter broadly united in midline; gillrakers tubercular, spiny; branchiostegal rays 6. Second finray of first dorsal fin spiny and serrated. Pelvic finrays 7-11. Scales with numerous spinules in various patterns. Anus close to anal fin origin; no light organ on belly.
Species 46; in Clofnam area 5.
Recent revision: Marshall and Iwamoto (1973—western North Atlantic).
Species of this genus in the program:
Coryphaenoides guentheri
Coryphaenoides macrocephalus
Coryphaenoides rupestris
Coryphaenoides thelestomus
Coryphaenoides zaniophorus