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Depth 15 1/4 to 17; head 6 2/3 to 8 1/8, 3 1/5 to 3 2/5 
to vent, width 3 3/4 to 4 In its length; combined head and 
trunk 1 to 1 1/3 in tail. Snout 5 to 5 3/4 in head; eye 6 
2/3 to 8, 1 1/4 to 1 3/5 in snout, little greater to equal 
to Interorbital; mouth cleft extends 3/4 to 1 eye diameter 
behind eye, length 2 1/5 to 2 1/2 in head; teeth uniserial 
in jaws and in irregular or double series on vomer; 3 large 
canines in row on premaxillary, depressible, often posterior 
largest, surrounded by loup of teeth little small though 
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larger than those of maxillaries; interorbital 7 3/4 to 8, 
low, little convex. Gill opening 3/5 to 1 in eye. 
Dorsal origin opposite last third in postrictal space, 
little higher than anal and continuous with very short cau¬ 
dal. 
Brown or light brown, finely mottled or speckled with 
darker, often with obscurely defined cross bands, most con¬ 
trasted on back, tail and fins. Often in small examples pale 
spots more or less whitish and scattered about dark blotches. 
Dark blotches often smaller or more broken in young so ver¬ 
tical fins show more whitish. In young whitish still more 
evident on vertical fins and spots reduced to short parallel 
brown lines vertically or transversely on fins. Or dark 
brown of body white spots large, few and in about 3 series. 
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