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Members of
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with a deep and compressed body; entire body covered with minute imbricated scales. Several fangs either fixed or depressible, on anterior portion of upper jaw. Vomer without teeth. Palatine with single row of small conical teeth. Lateral line bifurcating beneath anterior part of spinous dorsal; upper lateral line continuing roughly parallel to dorsal profile to base of caudal fin; lower lateral running vertically to lower base of pectoral fin and then along the lower body profile to base of caudal fin. Dorsal fin inserted above upper angle of gill opening; two dorsal fins close to each other with a deep notch between the fins. Pelvicl fin welldeveloped, fin spine and rays well developed. Finlets and keels absent on tail. Gill raker at angle of first gill arch Tshaped, with smooth inner surface. Pyloric caeca 711. Epineurals 2. Dorsal fin XVXVI, I, 1518, anal fin III, 1317, pectoral fin 15 or 16, and pelvic fin I, 5.
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Body deep, slender and laterally compressed; deepest at level of pelvic fin, gradually narrowing to caudal peduncle; dorsal profile of body straight, ventral slightly convex; body depth at pelvic-fin base
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SL. Head moderately large,
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SL; head triangular in lateral view; dorsal profile of head broadly curved and straight behind the eye or evenly straight. One or two small spines on lower angle of preopercle. Snout triangular, broadly pointed anteriorly. Mouth large, rear end of maxilla reaches level of eye center or nearly so; lower jaw extends anterior to upper jaw; several fangs, either fixed or depressible, at anterior portion of upper jaw, single row of smaller compressed teeth on upper jaw, alternating fixed and depressed ones; a pair of large canines near tip of lower jaw, exposed externally when mouth closed; single row of scattered compressed teeth on lower jaw, teeth larger than those on upper jaw; vomerine teeth absent; a single row of conical teeth on each palatine.
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To about
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TL.
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<emphasis id="3583EAD0FFADFFBDFF6AB2F4FEEDD0DB" bold="true" box="[199,334,224,248]" pageId="2" pageNumber="395">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name
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refers to the lack of spinules [referred to as finlets herein].
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defined the genus as &quot;
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&quot; He suggested that the genus
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should be placed between Thyrsites and Gempylus [under the family
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], to which it resembles in having extension of the first dorsal to the second, the naked caudal peduncle [e.g. lack of finlets], the teeth on the jaws, and the low number of pyloric caeca.
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The &quot;second [dorsal fin] terminates without spinules&quot; likely infers the lack of finlets in this genus. Moreover, there is single row of teeth on palatine in all specimens examined and “no teeth on palatine” as stated by
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is apparently a mistake.
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