Genus Ablennes Jordan and Fordice 
Athlennes JORDAN and FORDICE, p roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 9, 
p. 342, 1886. (Type, Be lone Mans VALENCIENNES, monotypic.) 
Ablennes JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 47, 
pt. 1, p. 717, 1896. (Type, Belone hians VALENCIENNES, virtually.) 
(C orrected orthography•) 
Body elongate, very slender, little compressed. Both jaws extended 
as beak, lower somewhat longer, much longer in young and very young suggestive 
of hemiramphids. Each jaw armed with band of small sharp teeth, beside 
which series of long wide-set sharp conical unequal teeth. No teeth on 
vomer or palatines. Gill rakers obsolete. Bones usually more or less 
green. Scales small, thin. Lateral line extends along lower side of belly, 
becomes median on tail. No finlets. Dorsal fin mostly elevated in front. 
Caudal short, unequally lunate or forked. Pectorals moderate. Ventrals 
small, inserted behind middle of body. 
Comparatively large voracious fishes, mostly in tropical and 
subtropical seas. 
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Belone hians VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 18, p. 432, 
pi. 548, 1846 (type locality: Havanna; Bahia). — GttNTHER, 
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Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 6, p. 248, 1866 (copied)j Joum. 
Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8, pt. 16, p. 353, fig. (head) 1909 
(Bermuda, Muscat, Red Sea, Madras, Hawaiian Islands). — 
7iTEBER, Siboga Exped., vol. 57, Fische, p. 123, 1913 (Dobo, 
Aru Islands). 
