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remained unaltered after the brilliancy of all besides had 
greatly faded. The distinctions between this fish and the 
Common Whiting are obvious in the more slender shape, the 
jaws, teeth in the palate, lateral line, fins, and colour. The 
number of rays in the fins were, — in the dorsals thirteen, 
twelve, and twenty-two; and thirty-five and twenty-five; 
pectoral twenty; ventral six. 
