Depth 10; head 2, head from snout tip 3-2/3, 
width 2-3/4. Snout 2-3/4 in head from snout tip; eye 
4 , 1 - 1/3 in snout, 1 -| in interorhital; maxillary reaches 
7/8 to eye, length 2-9/10 in head from snout tip; 
interorbital 3, low, level. Gill rakers 4 15, lanceolate 
equal gill filaments, which 2-3/4 in eye. 
Scales 40 in axial lateral series to caudal base 
and 4 more on latter; 5 above, 1 belov/; 36 predorsal 
forward to front of snout, of which 26 forward to head. 
Caudal base scaly, otherwise fins naked. Scales with 
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6 basal radiating striae; circuli fine, obsolete 
apically. 
D, I, 13, I, first branched ray 7^ in total 
head length; A. 11, with 3 lobes of which second 
apparently longest (ends of rays of first lobe broken), 
sixth ray (or second lobe) expanded, greatly branched 
and 64 in head; caudal 3§, rounded; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 9-4/5; pectoral 5-2/5; ventral 8-7/8, 
origin midway between last fifth of depressed pectoral 
and caudal base. 
