Genus Chlopsls Rafinesque 
Chlopsis RAFINESQUE, Inti, Itt, Sicil., 1810, pp, 42, 58, Type 
Chlopsls bioolor R AFINESQUE, monotypic, 
Saurenchelys P ETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss, Berlin, 1864, ?• 39?. 
Type Saurenohelys oanorlvora P ETERS, 
Gaviallceps WOOD, MASON, and ALCOCK, Ann. Mag, Nat, Hist., ser. 
6, vol. 4* 1889, p. 460. Type Gaviallceps taeniloa W OOD. MASON 
and ALCOCK, designated by JORDAN, Genera of *ishes, pt. 4, 1920 
p. 444. 
Body long, slender, fragile, compressed, with long tapering tail. 
Head long, tapering. Snout elongate, conic, ^e small, little advanc¬ 
ed. Mouth cleft long, with slender mandeble little shorter than snout. 
Teeth small, sharp, in bands in jaws and on vomer. Tongue short, tip 
free. Nostrils lateral, posterior slit like and before eye. Gill open 
ings moderate, close together. Lateral line axial. Vertical fins con¬ 
fluent, dorsal beginning above gill opening. N 0 pectoral. 
