1127 . 
Family Stylephorida© 
3ody elongate, compressed. Maxillaries largely close and open 
mouth, Maxillaries and premaxilleries with long extensions over top of 
cranium. Mouth small, tube like. Mandible enormous, with little move¬ 
ment. Short slit behind fourth gill arch. Skeleton but little ossified. 
Four pairs of superior pharyngeals, all but first pair with teeth. 
Greatly enlarged, pen-shaped basibranchials present, almost long as cran¬ 
ium. Post clavicle of single piece, extends far back. Post temporal 
simple unforked bone. Dorsal extends from head nearly to caudal fin, 
rays without cross articulations. No anal. Pectoral base horizontal, 
fin inclined upward. Ventral present (See Norman 1930), 
(o or o ?) 
Stylophorus Shew , Irans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 1, p. 90, 1791. (Type 
Stylophorus chordatus Shaw, nonotypic.) 
ssr 
Stylephonus Schneider , Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1301, p, 519. (Type 
Stylephorus chordatus Shaw.) 
