160 }. 
Brachyoterois JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 
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vol, 25, 1905 (1906), p. 189. Type Bathypterois 
longlfills OWNTHER. (Misprint for Bathypterois.) 
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Body elongate, compressed. Head depressed forward. 
Snout and forehead broad, depressed. Eyes very small. Mouth 
cleft wide, mandible protruding. Teeth in villiform bands 
in jaws, 2 patches on vomer, none on palatines or.tongue. 
Scales thin, adherent, moderate. Dorsal-moderate. Adipose. 
dorsal usually present. Anal short, not longer than dorsal. 
Caudal rather large. Pectoral rays arranged in 2 distinctly 
separated groups, as upper and lower, upper.ones of upper 
group greatly prolonged. Ventral premedian. 
