The upper jaw is not protrusible and has a sizeable additional bone over its posterior end.

The posterior bone of the upper jaw is enlarged at its rear and much of it is exposed when the mouth is closed.

The mouth is equipped with large teeth shaped like compressed canines which are well separated and arranged in 1–2 rows along the sides of the roof of the mouth with a patch of smaller teeth in the middle.

The margin of the preopercle is smooth and the rear of the gill cover has two flattened points.

[1] Scombrops oculatus is known only from the Western Atlantic but it may have a circumtropical distribution.