812 
Depth 383/4 to 55 3/4; head 16 4/5 to 183/4, 7 1/5 to 8 1/3 
to vent, width 3 3/4 to 4 2/5 its length; combined head and trunk 
1 1/5 to 1 1/4 in tail, Snout 5 to 5 1/8 in head; eye 10 to 12, 
1 7/8 to 2 1/4 in snout, 1 7/8 to 2 in interorbital; mouth cleft 
extends 3/4 to 1 1/2 eye diameters behind eye, length 2 4/5 to 
3 1/4 in head; teeth small, short, rounded, biserial in jaws, 
on premaxillary and vomer; interorbital 6 1/3 to 6 3/4, convex. 
Gill opening 9 3/4 to 10, in lower half of body depth, 1/2 inter¬ 
space. 
Lateral line distinct, complete. 
Dorsal begins little before middle in head length, fin 
height 3 1/4 to 5 in head; anal little lower than dorsal; pect¬ 
oral 11 1/2 to 12, 
Gray or brownish white, with 30 to 33 blackish rings, most¬ 
ly complete on head and trunk and all extending on vertical fins. 
Paler interspaces with or without 1 to 6 dark variable rounded 
blotches. 
Red Sea, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, East Indies, 
Andaman, Philippines, Rui Kiu, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, 
Polynesia, 
