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Body very slender, elongate, somewhat compressed. 
Head compressed. Snout pointed, with barbel like filament¬ 
ous appendage and 3 similar ones on symphysis of lower jaw. 
Eye small, covered by skin. Mouth cleft reaches far behind 
eye, jaws close completely. Teeth uniserial, conic, point¬ 
ed, maxillary series continued on premaxillary which carries 
besides mesially 3 depressible and somewhat longer teeth. 
Front nostril extended in tube ending with leaf like append¬ 
age, margin of which split. Hind nostril rounded opening 
close before eye level with upper eye edge. Gill openings 
larger than eye, in lower half of body height, forming into 
slight tube. Vertical fins confluent, well developed, cov¬ 
ered by skin only. Dorsal origin on top of head, far before 
gill openings. 
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Eels of moderate size, remarkable for the pointed app¬ 
endages at tip of the muzzle and the leaf like appendage of 
the front nostril. Apparently a single species. 
