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Genus Hemerorhinus Weber and Beaufort 
Hemerorhlnus WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo Austral, 
Archipelago, vol, 3, 1916, p. 281, ■^'ype Sphage~ 
branchus hel.lnlngl WEBER, monotyplc. 
Body much elongate, cylindrical. Head short. Snout 
pointed, projects beyond mouth. Eye small, before first 
fourth in head. Mouth cleft reaches far beyond eye. Lips 
without filaments. Teeth pointed, recurved, unlserial. 
Front nostrils in short tube, directed backward at edge 
of upper lip below front eye edge. Hind nostril long slit 
below and behind eye, some space above border of upper lip. 
Gill openings small, ventral, vertical, transversely connect 
ed by furrow. Dorsal and anal not confluent, end short 
space before tail tip. Dorsal origin somewhat behind anal 
origin. Pectorals wanting. 
East Indies. Unique in the family by the position of 
its nostrils, both of which are situated below the eye above 
the upper lip. 
