Genus Odontostomops

Odontostomops Fowler, 1934

Non-tubular eyes directed laterally; horizontal eye diameter distinctly less than inter-orbital width; aperture in adipose eyelid smaller than lens diameter; no lens pad. At least some dentary and palatine teeth lanceolate and barbed; front palatine tooth a large lanceolate fang, 5.3-6.9% SL. Dentary teeth biserial. No fossa centred on dentary symphysis, which is marked by a distinctly protruding, vertically oriented ridge. Pyloric caecum absent. Luminous tissue absent. Larvae with 12 or more peritoneal pigment sections.

Species 1 (taken just outside the Clofnam limits, probably present in area).

Recent revisions: Johnson (in press).

Species of this genus in the program:
Odontostomops normalops

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