Family ClUPLJODOlrTIDAE 
Body very long, compressed. Bead much compressed, elevated# Mouth large# 
Teeth in both jaws with excessively long fang like canines# laxillary enters 
Series of teeth on each palatine. 
edge of upper jaw. ASmall mental barbel# Opercles incomplete# Interopercle 
rudimentary# Bill openings very wide. 'To pseudobranchiae. Body covered with 
large, thin, caducous scales or sometimes naked# Photophores present. Dorsal 
and anal moderate, former inserted before ventrals or far premecian# Dorsal 
and ventral adipose fins present# Anal far posterior# Caudal forked# 
Deep sea fishes, rather small in size, noted for their enormous fang-like 
teeth# 
Gemis ClIAITIflODUS Schneider 
Chauliodus SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, n.430. Type Chauliodus sloani 
Schneider , monotypic. 
Vipera (not LINNAEUS) CATESBY, Eat. Hist# Carolina Fla. Bahamas, vol.2, 1771, 
p.119. Type Yipera marina CATESBY, monotypic• (inadmissible.) 
Chauliodes HISSO, Hist. Eat. Bar. Merid., vol.3, 1826, p.441# Type Chauliodes 
sch neideri RISSO, monotypic. 
Lep.todes S’TAHTSOrT, Eat. Hist# Animals, vol.l, 1838, p.30o; vol.2. 
Type Chauliodus sloani SCIlIETDER, virtually# kept odes SHAIilSOH 
replace Chauliodus SCHiffilBER. 
1839, p.303. 
proposed to 
Body compressed# R e ad short, bones thinly ossified# Snout very short# 
Eye moderate. Mouth extremely wide, cleft reaching beyond eye and lower jaw 
projecting# Dremaxillaries with 4 long fang-like canines each side. Mandible 
with pointed, wide set teeth, anterior exceedingly long. Hone greatly enlarged 
Elaxillaries vith fine teeth# Palatines with 
teeth received within mouth. 
