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Body greatly elongated, cylindrical or subcylindrical. Caudal 
peduncle compressed, deeper than wide. Head long, Premaxillaries and 
mandible prolonged into beak. Each jaw with a band of fine small teeth and 
a row of canines. Ho teeth on palate. Gill openings wide. Ho gill rakers. 
Only third pair of upper pharyngeals dentigerous, lower small, narrow and 
ends pointed or rounded. Scales small. Lateral line low, without keel on 
caudal peduncle. Dorsal and anal origins opposite. Caudal truncate or 
slightly rounded. 
Fresh waters India, Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, and the East Indies, 
Analysis of Species 
Depth 8 to 12} Indian, p^p pi^a t 
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a. Depth 14 to 18; East Indian. canciloides. 
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