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Depth 13 to 13%, body robust, but slightly 
compressed; sides little flattened; head 3 3/3 to 3 3/4, 
head from snout tip 4% to 4 3/5, width 3% to 3 1/3. 
Snout 3 3/5 to 3 8/3 in head from snout tip; eye 3 1/3 
to 4 1/5, 1% to 1 3/5 in snout, subequal or slightly 
greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/5 to 
eye, length 3% to 3 4/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
4 3/4 to 4 4/5, level. Gill rakers 10 :t, 33 or 34, lanceolate, 
1% in gill filaments, which 1 3/4 in eye. 
Scales 65 to 67 in medial axial count from gill 
opening to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on latter; 7 above, 
3 below, 39 or 40 predorsal forward to occiput. Dorsal 
and anal largely covered with small scales, also caudal 
base. Scales with fine vertical striae, basal 19 or SO, 
variously or not complete in vertical axis of scale. 
D. Ill, 14, first branched ray 5 3/5?to 5 3/4 in total 
head length; A. Ill, 15 or III, 16, first branched ray 
6%-? to 7; caudal (damaged) forked, lower lobe longer, 
3 3/5?; least depth of caudal peduncle 1S|:; pectoral 4 S/3 
to 4 3/5; ventral 6, 1/3 to 6^, inserted midway between gill 
opening and caudal base. 
