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Ladyfishes are elongate, slender, and robust, with a terminal mouth and a deeply forked caudal fin. … Gular plate, located between limbs of lower jaw, is well developed.

The height is 11 cm; the largest diameter, just below the pseudoscule, 4–6 by 9 cm; the thickness of the walls, 2–20 mm.

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