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Genus PIaturonIdes Roule and Bertin 
Platuronides ROULE and BERTIN^ Danish Dana Exped* Oceanogr* Rep., 
No. 4» Sept. 1529* p. 48® Platuronides danae ROULE and 
BERLIN, orthotypio. 
Body elongate, somewhat compressedt trunk tapering posteriorly. 
Snout beaks like. Eye moderate, advanced. Jaws strong and nearly equals 
^outh cleft not reaching hind eye edge. Maxillary and vomerine teeth 
pointed. Front nostril in. short tube directed forward, hind one between 
its base and eye. Gill openings appear united below throat. Lateral row 
without row of pores. Dorsal begins far behind pectorals, last rays like 
those of anal little elevated to form lancet end of tail, which without 
filament. 
