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Depth 16 1/3 to 18; head 8 2/3 to 8 7/8, 3 1/2 to 3 7/8 
to vent, width 2 2/3 to 4; combined head and trunk 1 to 1 
1/10 In tall. Snout 5 2/3 to 6 In head; eye 8 1/2 to 10, 1 
2/5 to 1 3/4 in snout, 1 to 1 1/5 In interorbital; mouth 
cleft extends 1 to 1/2 eye diameters behind eye, length 2 
1/4 to 3 1/8 in head; teeth uniserial in jaws, with inner 
medial series of 1 to 3 small ones in maxillary; 'vomerine 
teeth irregularly uniserial or biserial; premaxillary with 
medial row of 2 or 3 fang like teeth with surrounding loup 
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of 8 to 9 rather long teeth though shorter than maxillarles; 
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interorbital 6 to 8 2/3, convex. Gill opening equals eye. 
Dorsal origin about last fourth of postrictal space or 
over gill opening, fin rather high, much more so than anal. 
Yellowish to brov/n, with crowded dark brown spots, ill 
defined and usually obscure. When formed into blotches of 
moderate size often yellowish ground color prominent. Rictus 
sometimes with dark blotch. Larger blackish blotch on bor¬ 
der alway around gill opening. Sometimes dorsal and anal 
with light or yellowish border. 
Red Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Bourbon, Mauritius, Madagascar 
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Seychelles, India, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Queens¬ 
land, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia., Hawaii. 
