4.vexillifer larva An elongate, planktonic, pre-adult stage of most, perhaps all, Carapidae characterized by a long, filamentous, usually ornamented dorsal appendage, the vexillum.
跗端幼生一个大部分或全部，细长，浮游性，前成鱼阶段，潜鱼科特徵为长，丝状，背部附肢，羽瓣。
5.Ovary incompletely (3 or)4-loculed, with 1 pendulous ovule per locule (if 2, then 1 aborting early), (6-)8-ribbed, ornamented, mid-sepaline ribs less distinctly raised than others;
有很多雕刻
。
，丝状，
