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Depth 7-7/8; head E-S/o. Snout 3 in head 
from snout tip, width l-E/5; eye 4-3/4, in snout, 
1| in interorbital; maxillary reaches 7/8 to eye, length 
3 in head from snout tip; interorbital 3, very low, nearly 
level. 
Scales 30 in axial lateral series from above 
gill opening to caudal base and 2 more on latter: 6 
7 
transversely at dorsal origin. 
D. I, 10 or 11, fourth ray in male prolonged 
and thickened, 2-2/3 in total head length; A. 13, sixth 
ray in male prolonged and thickened, 1-4/5 in total head, 
also with additional filamentous rays; caudal 2, elongate, 
rounded behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 6-1/5; 
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pectoral 3-3/4, rays 9; ventral nearer caudal base than 
pectoral base. ■ ■ 
Sides with silvery band. (Kner.) 
East Indies, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. 
Although no dimensions are given in the original account 
of this species by Kner his figure measures 133 ram. 
The name Senarchopterus knerl is here nronosed 
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for this species as Hemirhamphus brevirostris GUnther, the 
hitherto accepted name is preoccupied by Hemiremphus 
brevirostris Cuvier. 
