1321 
Family LIPOGENYIDAE 
Body elongate, compressed, tail long and tapering. 
Head small, compressed. Muzzle obtuse. Eye small. Mouth 
rounded, inferior, suctorial. Lower jaw imperfect, rami 
separated medially, connected with corresponding sides of 
upper jaw, invested with thick, transversely plicated, 
horseshoe shaped lip, reflected upwards behind on cheeks. 
No teeth. Scales minute. Lateral line axial, complete. 
Dorsal premedian, with 4 or 5 partially connected graduated 
spines in front and few branched rays forming elevated tri- 
angular fin. Anal long series of low spines beginning under 
dorsal and passing into similar short rays posteriorly. 
Pectoral low. Ventrals inserted before dorsal, similar. 
One genus. 
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