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Family Omosudidae 
Body oblong to elongate or very alender. Head large to moderate. 
Eye in posterior half of head. Mouth cleft very large. Lower jaw large. 
Jaws with enlarged teeth, not barbed. Premaxillary and maxillary slender. 
Gill opening large. Gills 4. Pseudobranchiae well developed. No air 
vessel. Stomach very distensible. Supraclavicle and postclavicle form 
long rod from occiput each side downward to abdomen, partly free, not 
covered by skin. Body and head naked. Dorsal short, advanced to premedian 
with age. adipose fin present. Anal postmedian. Caudal forked. Pectoral 
long with age. Ventral premedian. 
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Genus Cmosudis Gunther 
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Qmosudis GUNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 22, 1887, p. 201. 
Type Qmosudis lowii GUNTHER, monotypic. 
Benthalbella ZUGMAYER, Bull. Inst. Oceanogr. Monaco, No. 193, 1911, 
p. 14. Type Benthabella infans ZUGMAYER, monotypic. 
