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Depth 5 to 5 7/8; head 3 to 3 l/3, width 2 2/5 to 3 l/5. Snout 4 7/8 
to 5 in head from snout tip to eye; orbit 2 7/8 to 3; eye 3 2/5 to 3 l/2, 
greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind pupil 
edge to hind eye edge, expansion 2 to 3/4 in eye, length 2 to 2 l/5 in head 
from snout tip; mandible ends in conic symphyseal point directed upward; 
bony interorbital 2 7/8 to 3 l/2 in eye, concave. Gill rakers 10 4 19, 
lanceolate, compressed, 3 times gill filaments or 2 l/4 in ejre. 
Tubular scales 47 to 57 in lateral line to ca\idal base and 7 more on 
latter, large, conspicuous. Scales all fallen. Skin with fine longitudinal 
parallel striae. 
D. VI or VII , 10, _I to 12, JE, fourth branched ray 2 l/8 to 2 l/2 in total 
head length; A. Ill or TV , 14, I or 15, _I, origin opposite base of fifth dorsal 
ray, first branched ray 2 2/3 to 3; caudal 1 2/5 to 1 3/4, well forked, lobes 
terminate in slender points, large rudimentary rays usually 13 above or below; 
also well extended forward; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 2/3 to 5; 
pectoral 2 2/3 to 4, reach half way to ventral and usually 1 4/5; ventral 2 l/lO 
to 2 3/5 in head, inserted last 2/5 to 3/5 in space between pectoral and anal 
origins, 4/5 to 7/8 to vent, which close before anal. 
Blackish brown generally. Eye ball ivory white. Inside mouth and gill 
openings blackish. Fins dark brown like general body color. 
East Indies, Philippines. Known by its dorsal and anal fins opposed, 
well developed rudimentary caudal rays, comparatively long paired fins, large 
eye and anteriorly directed spur or spine at symphyseal tip of lower jaw. Of 
all described species it approaches closest to Rouleina nudus (Brauer), 
mandibular 
especially in the,maadifelre* point, long paired fins, maxillary, dorsal and anal 
rays and rudimentary caudal rays. It differs clearly in the larger eye, always 
