diff --git a/Stream_support/include/CGAL/IO/PLY.h b/Stream_support/include/CGAL/IO/PLY.h
index 101aa81aafe..22909460269 100644
--- a/Stream_support/include/CGAL/IO/PLY.h
+++ b/Stream_support/include/CGAL/IO/PLY.h
@@ -289,7 +289,8 @@ bool read_PLY(std::istream& is,
  * \param is the input stream
  * \param points points of the soup of polygons
  * \param polygons a range of polygons. Each element in it describes a polygon
- *        using the indices of the points in `points`.
+ *        using the indices of the points in `points`
+ *  \param comments a string that will contain all the comments found in the PLY file
  * \param np optional \ref bgl_namedparameters "Named Parameters" described below
  *
  * \cgalNamedParamsBegin
@@ -364,7 +365,8 @@ bool read_PLY(std::istream& is,
  * \param fname the path to the input file
  * \param points points of the soup of polygons
  * \param polygons a range of polygons. Each element in it describes a polygon
- *        using the indices of the points in `points`.
+ *        using the indices of the points in `points`
+ *  \param comments a string that will contain all the comments found in the PLY file
  * \param np optional \ref bgl_namedparameters "Named Parameters" described below
  *
  * \cgalNamedParamsBegin
diff --git a/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/IO/PLY.h b/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/IO/PLY.h
index fb2e3bf7d0c..b27e5ebefa1 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/IO/PLY.h
+++ b/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/IO/PLY.h
@@ -812,7 +812,6 @@ void fill_header(std::ostream& os, const Surface_mesh<Point>& sm,
 /// \param comments a string used to store the potential comments found in the PLY header.
 ///        Each line starting by "comment " in the header is appended to the `comments` string
 ///        (without the "comment " word).
-/// \param verbose whether extra information is printed when an incident occurs during reading
 ///
 /// \pre The data in the stream must represent a two-manifold. If this is not the case
 ///      the `failbit` of `is` is set and the mesh cleared.