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distributed. Three rows of small, sharp, triangular 
teeth, smooth at their edges, in each jaw, the two 
first straight; the back row, recurved; the three 
teeth on each side of the middle of the lower jaw, 
the largest. Tongue large, rough, fleshy. Five 
large branchial apertures, situated vertically ; the 
distance between the first, greater than between the 
posterior. Depth of the fish in front of the dorsal 
fin, fifteen inches; distance from the extremity of 
the snout to the dorsal fin, thirty-four inches. 
The first Dorsal fin is triangular, with a fleshy 
horizontal process pointing backward from its base 
posteriorly ; one foot one inch long; one foot high ; 
between this and the second dorsal, twenty-three 
inches. 
The second Dorsal is adipose, rhomboidal, four 
inches long, two inches high. 
The Pectorals are quite strong, and somewhat 
lunated, ten inches long, eighteen inches high ; seven 
inches from the first branchial aperture. 
Length of the Ventrals, eight and a half inahex; 
height, four inches. Distance between the pectorals 
and the ventrals, twenty inches. Anus large be- 
tween the ventrals. Eight inches between the 
extremity of the ventrals and the origin of the 
anal fin. 
Length of the Anak fin, four inches ; height two 
inches. Ona line 
four inches wide in its middle ; T 
tion of this space, a crescent-shaped ridge, three 
