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;| Depth 2 2 / 3 to 3 V 4 J head 2 2 / 5 to 2%, width 2 2 / 5 to 3. Snout 1% 
to 3 V 4 i n head; eye 3 2 / 5 to/7 2 / 3 , 1 V 2 to 4 3 /4 in snout, greater than inter- 
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orbital in young to 1 to 2 with age; maxillary reaches l/ 2 to 2 / 3 to eye, not 
to front nostril, lengti^V4 to 3 in head; lips broad, fleshy, coriaceous; 
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teeth in broad villiform|^nds anteriorly in jaws, outer row enlarged and 
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conic with 4 front ones i|| each jaw slight canines, all laterals strongly 
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conic, interorbital 4 to ; ^^/g in head, broadly and slightly convex in young, 
nearly level to slightl w|ca nc ave with age; naked region of head with fine stri- 
ae or skin finely rugosif* Gill rakers 4-4-5, short low tubercles, about Vo 
\of gill filaments# 
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Scales 44 ||p 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 or 2 more on 
latter; 6 above, 15jjlr 16 below, 9 predorsal; caudal and pectoral bases finely 
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scaled. Scales w|ph 12 to 18 basal radiating striae, with 2 to 23 incomplete 
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auxiliaries; HOfbo 244 apical denticles, with & to 8 transverse series of 
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basal elemental ci rculi finej^ *3 
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jfc * I > fourth spine 2|Vg to 3 V$*£in head, fourth ray 3 to 3V 5 ; 
A. Ill, 8,#, third spine 3 A /? to tf/ g , first Jray 3 1 /* to 3 2 /,: caudal lV 
to 1 / g , ^©eply emarginate; I'ebst depth of cafdal peduncle 3 V 5 to 3 7 /„; pec* 
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toral 1 IP 5 to 1 3 / 6 S vent*^! 2 /, to 1 3 A« 
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'M Brown generally, paler to whiti^t below. Head, deeper or drab-brown, 
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pale below. Each scale on body with slightly darker margin. Iris golden brown 
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Fins brown, vertical ones mottled or otpburely spotted with deeper brown# 
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Ked Sea, Zanzibar, Mozambique, 0rtuguese East.^frica, Eatal, Madagascar, 
India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, China, Mu Kiu, Melanesia, Micronesia, 
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Polynesia. Easily known amon^|Jr|l the spectps of its genus by its very long 
attenuated snout, broad lips,conic teeth. Moreover it reaches a large size 
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Klunzinger giving 820 mm* as Maximum length. 
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