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Depth 4 3/4; head 4 1/8, width 3 1/3# Snout 4 in head from upper 
jaw tip; eye 4 1/3, 1 1/6 in snout, greatly exceeds narrow bony interorbital; 
maxillary narrow, extends 4/5 eye diameter behind eye but not to preopercle 
ridge, expansion 2 1/5 in eye, length 1 1/4 in head from upper jaw tip; 
maxillary and premaxillary teeth all uniformly small; 2 long depresslble 
fangs on vomer long as eye and half of snout and 4 much shorter depressible 
teeth on each palatine; each mandibular ramu3 with 6 depressible fangs, 
second longest and graduated down to last, first shortest; interorbital low, 
bony, width 1/3 of eye. Gill rakers as row of very short, minute denticles; 
gill filaments 1 1/3 in eye. 
Scales all fallen. Lateral line of 16 pores anteriorly or before 
ventrels. 
D. I, 11, I, first branched ray 1 3/5? in total head length; adipose 
- X 
fin 3 2/5; A. II, 32, I, first branched ray 2 1/4?; caudal 2, small, lobes 
well pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 4; pectoral 1 7/8?; ventral 
2 1 / 6 ? 
Pale or light brown. Iris gray white. Fins whitish. 
40054 U. S. N. M. Nice. Florence Museum. Length 120 mm. 
