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Depth 14 to 21; head 7 2/3 to 8 1/3, 3 3/4 to 4 to vent, 
width 3 to 3 1/2 in its length; combined head and trunk 1 to 
1 1/5 in tail. Snout 6 to 6 1/2 in head; eye 11 to 13, 1 
3/4 to 2 in snout, 1 to 1 1/5 in interorbital; mouth cleft 
extends 1 to.2 eye diameters behind eye, length 2 1/2 to 3 
in head; teeth in jaws uni serial, in very young biserial 
though inner series soon disappearing; vomerine teeth uni- 
serial in young, later becoming irregular or blserlal and' 
with age only 2 short series remain; mandibular teeth bi¬ 
serial in young, outer series disappearing with age except 
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anteriorly where always blserlal; young with 2 or 3 teeth 
in row on premaxillary, only 1 remaining with age, surround¬ 
ing loup of teeth 10 to a dozen; interorbital 6 7/8 to 9, 
rather broadly convex, with median depression. Gill opening 
2/3 of eye. 
Dorsal origin over last fifth in postrictal space till 
over gill opening, fin much higher than anal; short caudal 
obtuse. 
Generally pale yellowish, with small numerous rounded 
blackish spots, about equal to eye in very young. In young 
of later stages spots with pale or yellow centers, both of 
which gradually Increase in size and extent with age. Even¬ 
tually dark areas break and resulting spots subdivide until 
whole body marked with myriads of small dark dots, fewer on 
whitish abdomen. 
