1265 
Depth 16 1/2 to 28; head 7 to 10 1/3, 3 2/5 to 4 1/4 
to vent, width 3 to 3 4/5 in Its length; combined head and 
trunk 1 to 1 2/5 in tail. Snout 6 1/2 to 6 3/4 in head; 
eye 10 to 11 1/2, 1 3/4 to 1 7/8 in snout, 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 
in interorbital; mouth cleft extends 1 1/4 to 2 eye diameters 
behind eye, length 2 2/3 to 2 3/4 in head; teeth triserial, 
2 innerseries larger, wider spaced, fewer and depressible, in 
jaws, in young biserial; several large medial depressible pre¬ 
maxillary teeth; vomerine teeth in short single row, biserial 
anteriorly with age; interorbital 7 1/4 to 8, little convex. 
Gill opening equals or little longer than eye. 
Slight cutaneous fin only at end of tail. 
Yellowish, grayish or gray brown, usually little paler 
below. Body most everywhere finely or coarsely marbled with 
darker. 
Zanzibar, Natal, Madagascar, Aldabra, India, Andamans, 
East Indies, Philippines, China, Melanesia, Micronesia, Poly¬ 
nesia, Hawaii. 
