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Genus Euleptorharnnhus Gill 
Euleptorhamphus GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Philadelphia, 1859, p. 156. (Type Euleptorhamphus 
hrevoortl GILL = Hemiramphus viridis VAN HASSELT, 
monotypic.) 
Body elongate, very slender, compressed, more or 
less hand like. Head compressed, sloping below so its lower 
edge quite narrow or even keel like. Snout short, but little 
longer ‘than wide. Eye nearly circular, advanced, high. 
Mandible greatly prolonged as slender beak. Teeth minute, 
in bands in jaws. Nasal cavity large, close before eye, 
flap large. Interorbital flat, like most of upper surface 
of head. Gill rakers lanceolate, numerous. Scales narrowly 
exposed, loose. Lateral line low. Dorsal moderate, posterior. 
Anal like dorsal, similar. Caudal well forked, lower lobe 
longer. Pectoral very long, falcate, reaches half way or 
more to ventral. Ventral small, inserted little nearer caudal 
base than pectoral origin. 
Apparently a single widely distributed species in 
most tropical or subtropical seas. 
