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small, the maxillary very much curved and reaching to a little past 

 front of orbit; teeth small and set in a single row; six very short gill- 

 rakers on lower arch of first gill. Scales finely ctenoid, the spinules 

 on the scales slender and very numerous; blind side with cycloid 



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scales; lateral line with a very a])rupt, short, high curve, its height 

 contained 1.83 in its chord, which is half length of head, its beginning 

 opposite the terminal third of pectoral. Dorsal beginning in advance 

 of eye; pectoral of eyed side long and slender, of blind side less than 



