Description: Morphometric and meristic
values are respectively provided in tables 1 and 2.
Body strongly depressed, disk markedly
triangular in dorsal view, cranium elevated above
dorsal surface of other parts of disk; caudal
peduncle slender, tapering posteriorly; rostrum
small, conical, distinctly overhanging illicial cavity
and mouth (Fig. 5A), directed to front rather than
upward (Fig. 5B), its length longer than 1/2 eye
diameter; eye large, directed dorsolaterally; no
pupillary operculum; interorbital space relatively
flattened, not forming a groove; illicial cavity
a small triangular cave, wider than high; esca
a single bulb bearing 2 small cirri on dorsal
margin; mouth small, terminal; small villiform
teeth on jaws forming narrow bands, those on 5th
ceratobranchial (“tongue teeth” sensu Bradbury
1967 1980) in 2 large, closely spaced, elongated
patches, and quadrangular tooth patches on vomer
and palatines.