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Genus Steindachneria Goode and Bean 
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Steindachneria GOODE and BEAM, in AGASSIZ, Three Criuses of 
the Blake, vol. 2, p. 26, 1888. (Atypic. Type Steindachneria 
argentea GOODE and BEAN 1895 affixed.) 
Steindachn eria GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., p. 419, 1895. 
(Type Steind achneria argentea GOODE and BEAN, monotypic.) 
Steindach ner ella EIGENMANN, Amer. Nat., vol. 31, p. 159, Feb. 
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1897. (Type Steindachneria argentea GOODE and BEAN, virtually. 
Steindachne rella EIGENMANN proposed to replace Steindachneria. 
GOODE and BEAN.) 
Body compressed, with long tapering tail. Trunk short, less than 
head. Head moderate, bones soft and cavernous. Snout short. Eye large, 
anterior. No mandibular barbel. Mouth large, terminal. Teeth biserial, 
outer row well delarged. Vomerine teeth present. Gill opening wide, 
membranes united anteriorly and free from isthmus. Gill rakers lanceolate. 
No pseudobranchiae. Bramchiostegals 7. Scales deciduous, thin, cycloid, 
present on head. Both dorsals elevated anteriorly and first simple ray of 
first fin elongated. Anal with elevated anterior lobe, greater portion of 
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fin very low # Paired fins "feslow first florsal* 
