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Depth 6 2/5 to 8|-, body compressed with flattened sides; head 
2 2/5 to 2 2 / 3 , head from snout tip 4-| to 4 2 / 5 , width 5 to 6 in head from 
mandible tip» Snout 2 7/8 to 3 in head from snout tip; eye 3 3/4 to 4, 
1 1/3 to 1 2/5 in snout, 1 to 1 l/s in interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/4 
to 4/5 to eye, length 3 I /3 to 3 2/5 in head from snout tip; mandible before 
snout tip 5 to 5 l/s in total length; interorbital 3 I /4 to 4 in head from 
snout tip, level, low* Gill rakers 8 or 9 “f" 22 to 24, lanceolate, subequal 
with gill filaments, Tidiich 2 in eye# 
Scales 50 to 52 in axial lateral series to caudal base and 5 or 
6 more on latter; 7 above; 30 or 31 predorsal forward to occiput or opposite 
gill opening* Dorsal and anal scaly basally and anteriorly and caudal 
largely with minute scales. 
D* II, 11 or II, 12, first blanched i*ay 1 7/8 to 2 in head measured 
from snout tip; A. II, 9 or II, 10, first branched ray 3 I /3 to 3 3/5; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 l/s to 3|-; pectoral 1 I /3 to 1 2/5; ventral 
1 7/8 to 2 - 5 . 
Back and upper surfaces brown, each scale with dArk brown subnarginal 
crescent. Sides and below bright silvery white. Along side of back 7 dark 
or vertical short blackish bars. Usually an underlaid bright silvery axial 
band along side, bordered vrith narrow gray band or sia-eak above most its 
whole extent. Iris silvery white. Fins pale or whitish, front of dorsal 
lobe and caudal darker or dusky. 
Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Moxwnbique, Natal, Maurituis, Seychelles, 
India, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines, Indo China, Formosa, Rui Kui, 
Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Queensland, Nw South Wales* 
