2300 
Body compressed, very slender, with long tapering tail with age. 
Head pointed. Snout rather long, conic. Eye large, in posterior half 
of head. Mouth with mandible protruding. Row of single teeth in upper 
jaw end somewhat larger row in mandible. Palate toothless. Tongue with 
8 strong teeth. Gill rakers very strong. Branchiostegals 6? to 8. Body 
scaleless. Dorsal premedian, small. Long low adipose fin median with 
age. Anal long, low. Pectoral long, inserted in lower half of body depth. 
Ventral rather long, inserted before dorsal. 
ft 
Omosudis ^ fowii Gunther 
if 
Omosudis lowli GUNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 2$, 1887, p. 201, 
v 
pi. 51, figs, c - e 1 . Philippine Islands, N. Lat. 4°33’ E» Long. 
127 6*, in 500 fathoms. —GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 
• . ~ 1 * K ^ • * ■■ iLjj. jk 
p. 122, pi. 40, fig. 150 (compiled). —FOWLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Philadelphia, 1901, p. 212 (compiled) 
Omosudis lowe i BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exp. Valdivia , vol. 5, Tiefsee- 
Fische, 1906, p. 140 (diagnosis in key). —PARR, Bull. Bingham 
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Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, art. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 171 (Atlantic 
materials). 
