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mandibulary and mental ones in two pairs, separated by two 
mental pores and two pores above each pair. A short, high 
dorsal, with a long pungent spine, the teeth at the hindborder 
of which are directed upward; at a short distance followed by 
a very long, convex adipose fin, totally adnate to the body. 
Anal short, opposed to middle of the adipose fin. Pectorals 
with a pungent spine. Caudal deeply forked, with the lobes 
more or less produced into filaments. Villiform teeth in bands 
in the jaws and on the vomer, besides long movable labial 
teeth in the lower jaw. Gillmembranes totally united, free 
from isthmus, their hindborder with a slight notch behind. 
Branchiostegals 7. . 
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Fig. 146. Bagrichthys hypselopterus Blky. 
The figure in outline represents a fullgrown specimen after Bleeker. 
I. Bagrichthys hypselopterus (Blkr.). 
Bagrus hypselopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indié, III. 1852, p. 588. 
Bagrichthys hypselopterus Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, 
p- 131. — Atl. Ichth, Il. 1862, p. 49. 
Bagrichthys hypselopterus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 92. 
B..7; Ds T 75  Alivds pS Pils Oe 
