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Genus Alabes Cloquet 
Alabes CLOQUET, Diet. Sci. Nat,, vol., 1, 1816, p. 99 
(on Les Alabes CUVIER, Regne Animal, vol, 2, 1817, 
p. 23 o. Atypic. "Sea of the Indies"), Type, 
Alabes c uverlae MC CLELLAND, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Ben¬ 
gal, vol, 5, 1845, p. 221. 
Alabi s SV’AINSON, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 1, 1838, p. 
225. Atypic. (On CUVIER). 
Alaebes SWAINSON, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, 1839, p. 
336. Atypic. (On CUVIER; error). 
Cheilobranchus RICHARDSON, Ichth, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 
1844-48, p. 50. Type Cheilobranchus dorsalis RICHARDSON. 
Chilobranchus GtfNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 8, 
1870, p. 17. Type Cheilobranchus dorsalis RICHARDSON. 
Body compressed, subcylindrical in front, moderately elon¬ 
gate. Head small. Snout very obtuse, short. Eye moderate. 
Mouth narrow, upper jaw Slightly protractile. Teeth in jaws 
uniserial, none on palate. Gill opening transverse, gill mem¬ 
branes not attached to isthmus. Hinder edge of gill opening 
with raised lip. Gill arches 4, no slit behind fourth. Gills 
well developed. No accessory breathing sac. Intestine straight, 
dilation of stomach longer than intestine, provided with short 
caecal appendage near upper end. Vent premedian, with minute 
paoilla. Vertical fins reduced to simple cutandous fold, with» 
out rays. 
Australia and Tasmania. 
