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Depth 34 1/3 to 37 to caudal base, 3 2/3 to 5 1/4 in head; head 8 1/2 to 
9 to caudal base, 2 3/4 to 3 1/3 to vent; combined head and trunk 1 3/4 to 2 
in tail to caudal base; head width 7 to 8 in its length. Snout 2 1/2 to 3 
1/3 in head; eye 11 to 12, 3 3/4 to 5 3/4 in snout, little greater than inter¬ 
orbital in young to 1 1/4 in interorbital with age; mouth cleft reaches 1/2 
to 3/4 an eye diameter beyond eye, length 2 to 2 2/3 in head; teeth slender, 
sharp, conic, in bands in jaws, each with median enlarged series a bove, 
and similar inner enlarged aeries below; premaxillary teeth external on low¬ 
er surface of protruded snout, set off from maxillary teeth and before closed 
mandible tip; single row of 8 to 10 large wide spaced teeth down shaft of 
vomer; interorbital low, depressed, width 14 1/2 to 15 1/2. Gill opening 
equals eye, interspace barely 1/4. 
Lateral line distinct. 
Dorsal begins over gill opening, fin height 4 1/2 in head; anal lower, 
fin height 5 1/2; caudal 3 to 4. 
Dark brown, nearly uniform. Young examples often pale. Iris gray. In¬ 
side gill opening blackish. Vertical fins often dusky to blackish brown. 
Andaman Sea, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, Philippines. 
