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Genus Bathysaurus Gttnther 
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Bathysaurus GUNTHER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 
2, 1878, p. 182. Type Bathysaurus ferox GUNTHER, 
si 
designated by JORDAN, Genera of Fishes, pt. 3, 1919, 
► 
p. 395. 
Body elongate, su.bcylindrical. Head depressed. Snout 
produced, flat above. Eye Moderate or small, lateral, little 
advanced. Mouth cleft rather wide, lower jaw projecting, 
Premaxillary very long, styliform, tapering, not movable. 
Teeth in wide bands in jaws, not covered by lips, curved, un¬ 
equal in size and barbed at ends. Series of similar teeth on 
each palatine, few on tongue and groups of small ones on 
hyoid. Gill openings wide, membranes separate from each other 
and from isthmus. Gill rakers tubercular. Pseudobranchiae well 
developed. Branchiostegals 11 or 12. Scales small. Lateral 
line axial, complete. Dorsal premedian, rays 18. Adipose 
fin present or absent. Anal postmedian, moderate. Caudal 
emarginate. Pectoral moderately large. Ventral inserted 
close behind pectoral rays 8. 
