Lophiodes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goosefishes, monkfishes and anglers.

Lophiodes was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1896 by the American ichthyologists George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean with Lophius mutilis, a species described in 1894 by the English physician, naturalist and carcinologist Alfred William Alcock with its type locality given as the Bay of Bengal, as its only species.

[1][2] The genus Lophiodes is one of 4 extant genera in the family Lophiidae which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies in the monotypic suborder Lophioidei with the order Lophiiformes.

The first spine on the head is the angling pole, the illicium, has a flap of flesh, the esca, at its tip which is used as a lure to attract prey to within reach of the large mouth.

[6] Lophiodus goosefishes are found in the tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.