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Depth 6 3/4 to 7 1/5; head 3 1/2 to 4 3/4, width 2. 
Snout 3 to 3 3/5 in head from snout tip; eye 8 1/3 to 10, 
2 1/3 to 3 1/3 in snout, 3 1/2 to 4 l/5 in interorbital; max¬ 
illary extends 1 1/2 to 2 eye diameters behind eye, expansion 
3/4 to 1 eye diameters, length 1 1/2 to 2 1/4 in head from 
snout tip; interorbital 2 to 2 2/3, low, slightly convex. 
Gill rakers 13 f 31, finely lanceolate, slender, twice gill 
filaments equal 2 1/4 eye diameters. 
Scales 50 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 
more on latter; 6 above, 7 or 8 below, 27 or 28 predorsal 
forward to eye. Scales very caducous, most all fallen. 
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D. II, 12, I, first branched ray 1 1/5? to 1 2/5 in 
total head length; adipose fin 5, inserted midway between hind 
dorsal ray base and caudal base; A. I, 8, I, first branched 
ray 1 2/5 to 2 1/5; caudal 1 1/8? to 1 1/5, emarginate; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3 1/5; pectoral rays 2f9, upper¬ 
most reaches middle of caudal, gives off aftershaft at first 
fourth, of other rays lowest equally long as first; ventral 
- iMP* . 
rays 9, length 3 1/5 to 3 2/5 in combined head and trunk to 
caudal base. 
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Body dark brown. Inside gill opening dusky. Iris gray¬ 
ish. Fins whitish. 
Atlantic Ocean. 
