Another small family, Derepodichthyidæ, is represented by one species, a scaleless little fish from the shores of British Columbia.
These are smallscaleless fishes with flat heads, the preopercle armed with a strong spine, the body bearing a general resemblance to the smaller and smoother Cottidæ.
Some are scaleless and some have but a single small gill-opening on the blind side.
This large flounder has a very broad body, scaleless but covered with warty tubercles.
The Lycodapodidæ contain a few small, scaleless fishes (Lycodapus) dredged in the north Pacific.
The general form is that of the sturgeon, but the body is scaleless except on the upper caudal lobe, and there are no plates on the median line of the skull.
In Blennius and its relatives the body is scaleless and the slender teeth are arranged like the teeth of a comb.
In scaleless fishes the mucous tube lies in the skin itself.
The nearest tourists fell back in alarm as he hissed malevolently at Albert, "Stand back, Earthman, or I'll let the life out of your scaleless carcass!
But what the scaleless oaf didn't know was that this applied to Antarians only.
This silly impression also prevails with regard to many other scaleless fish on the Australian coast, some of which, such as the trevally, are among the best and most delicate in flavour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scaleless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
