Dysomma Alcock, 1889

Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G. & Tighe, Kenneth A., 2015, Review of the arrowtooth eel genera Dysomma and Dysommina in Taiwan, with the description of a new species (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae: Ilyophinae), Zootaxa 4060 (1), pp. 86-104 : 87

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.12
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5295825
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scientific name	Dysomma Alcock, 1889
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Dysomma Alcock, 1889 View in CoL

Dysomma Alcock, 1889:459 View in CoL (type species, Dysomma bucephalus Alcock, 1889 , by monotypy). Sinomyrus Lin, 1933:93 , fig. 1 (type species, S. angustus Lin View in CoL , by monotypy; S. angustus View in CoL is a synonym of Dysomma anguillare Barnard , fide Böhlke, 1949:34 –35).

Definition. A genus of Synaphobranchidae View in CoL with a row of large compound teeth on the vomer and the following combination of characters: body stout to moderately elongate, slightly compressed in head and trunk; scales absent; pectoral fin present or not; dorsal-fin origin in front of anus; intermaxillary teeth present or not; snout projects slightly beyond lower jaw (except for D. melanurum ); anus below pectoral fin to more than one head length behind pectoral-fin tip; and gill openings well-separated.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Curculionidae