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Body slender, elongate. Head moderate. Snout short. Eye well 
advanced in head. Mouth reaches below front of eye, lower jaw pro¬ 
truding. Maxillary tip ensheathed. Teeth simple, uniserial in jaws, 
none on palate. Interorbital low. Scales small, best developed and 
ctenoid posteriorly on body. Head naked. Vertical fins separated. 
Dorsals separated, first of 6 short spine, soft rays less than 15» 
Caudal rounded or elongate. Anal like soft dorsal, opposite. Pectoral 
long, shorter with age. Ventrals similar, separated though close to¬ 
gether. 
Jordan and Seale stated "the body translucent and scaleless" 
though the scales are perfectly distinct and many even be distinguished 
without the aid of a lens. Snyder (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, P» 101, 
1908) says its genotype "is not naked, but has the body covered with 
scales, according to Mr. B.A. Bean, who has kindly reexamined the type.” 
