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Body very slender, elongate. Snout prolonged into 
proboscis like tip at least third of head. Teeth in jaws 
erect, fine, in rows in each Jaw, stronger on palate, arrang¬ 
ed in form of horseshoe. Lateral line conspicuous, decend- 
ing from angle of opercle in broad strong curve to below 
middle region of body at point not far from vent. Dorsal 
represented by numerous, slender, curved, flexible, disjoined 
spines, 29 to 37. Anal of small, longer, slender, flexible 
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spines, passing somewhat behind last of dorsal spines into 
low short rayed fin. Pectoral moderate, slender, above 
median axis close below pectoral. Ventral slender, fins en¬ 
tirely separate, reach vent, with 1 spine. 
