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Body slendor, elongate^ moderately compressed* tapering from trunk 
to snout and to end of tail* Head rather long* pointed# Snout pointed* 
somewhat curved upward* not longer than rest of head* Eye above mouth 
angle* Jaws moderately attenuated* lower somewhat longer* Mouth cleft 
reaches behind eye* Teeth in front third of jaws small* compressed; in 
several rows* in second third larger* lancet shaped* depressible and uni* 
serial* in last third small* less compressed* Vomerine teeth much larger* 
blade like* alternating* crowded to appear as compressed serrate row* 
Gill openings wide* inferior* descend forward* Gill membranes united* 
joined to thin partition attaching them to isthmus* No scales# Vertical 
fins confluent* Dorsal origin behind anal origin* latter midway between 
pectoral and dorsal origins* Pectoral small* rather high* Bent at end of 
first or in front of second fourth of length* 
Bathypelagic in tropical seas* 
