13E 
Body elongate, compressed. Head long. 
Triangular upper jaw longer than wide. Bye large. Mandible 
extended into beak, which furnished with small pointed teeth; 
with lateral horizontal fold of skin on each side, especially 
developed in part opposite upper jaw and not always conspicuous 
in preserved specimens. Gill opening wide. Gill rakers short. 
Scales very small. Dorsal posterior, well in advance of 
anal and much longer. Caudal rounded. Pectorals placed 
rather low, moderate. Ventrals variably shorter or longer 
than pectoral, before or behind dorsal origin. 
Fishes living in brackish waters, in Malaya and 
Bast Indies. 
Analysis of Snecies 
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D. 15 to 17; ventral origin before dorsal 
origin.--pogon ognathus. 
p 
a~. D. 21 to 23; ventral origin behind dorsal 
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originT-phaiosoma. 
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