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These striking features can be observed in members of the marine teleost family Stomiidae. The present study gives a detailed morphological description of the mesopelagic predatory fish, <jats:italic>Stomias boa,<\/jats:italic> based on a combined approach of clearing and double staining, serial sections and dissection. In this genus, large pads made of dense connective tissue extend from the first enlarged neural arch to the ventral side of the chordal sheath, embracing the prominent exoccipitals and thus constituting a kind of double ball\u2010 and socket joint for the head. The notochordal occipito\u2010vertebral gap is enlarged, probably not by loss of vertebral centra as is proposed for other genera of the stomiid family, e.g., in <jats:italic>Astronesthes<\/jats:italic> or <jats:italic>Photostomias<\/jats:italic>. 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