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Depth 7 1/4 to 9; head 4 1/4 to 5, width 2 1/10 to 2 1/5. 
Snout 3 to 3 1/2 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 8 to 9 1/2, 
I 4/5 to 6 in snout, 2 4/5 to 7 3/4 in interorbital; maxillary 
extends 5 eye diameters behind eye, expansion equals 2 eye 
diameters, length 1 1/2 to 1 4/5 in head from upper jaw tip; 
interorbital 2 4/5 to 3, low, broadly convex. Gill rakers 
II t 30, finely lanceolate, 4 times eye and twice gill fila¬ 
ments. 
Scades 55 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 
4 more on latter; 6 above, 7 or 8 below, 30 predorsal forward 
opposite eyes. Scales very caducous, most all fallen. Scales 
with 45 clrculi basally, usually obsolete apically. 
D. II, 12 or II, 13, I, first branched ray 1 1/8 to 1 1/5 
in total head; adipose fin 7 3/4 to 8 1/2, origin midway be¬ 
tween caudal base and base of last dorsal ray; A. I, 8, first 
branched ray 1 1/4; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 3/4; cau¬ 
dal 3 1/4 to 3 2/3 in rest of body; pectoral rays 2-7 or 8, 
uppermost reaches caudal tip, gives off aftershaft last 2/5 
Its length, other rays reach far as dorsal fin origin; ventral 
rays 8, first or simple ray 2 4/5 to 2 7/8 in combined head 
and body to caudal base. 
Blackish brown. Iris gray. Inside gill opening white. 
Head anteriorly brownish, opercle blackish. Fins white. 
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 
