Lycodonus

Lycodonus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The species in this genus are found in the North and Southern Atlantic Ocean. These fishes are sometimes called scutepouts.

==Taxonomy== Lycodonus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1883 by the American ichthyologists George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean when they described Lycodonus mirabilis, its type locality being given as in the Atlantic Ocean at 38°20'08"N, 73°23'20"W at a depth of . This genus is classified in the subfamily Lycodinae, one of four subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.