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Depth 7 3/4; head 3 7/8. Snout 3 In head from snout tip; 
eye 13, 4 in snout; maxillary extends 3 1/2 eye diameters 
behind eye, expansion equals 1 1/2 eye diameters, length 1 1/2 
in head from snout tip; interorbital slightly less than snout, 
moderately high. 
Scales 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on 
latter; 7 above, 7 below. 
D. I, 11, I, first branched ray 1 2/3 in total head 
length; adipose fin 5 2/3; A. I, 7, I, first branched ray 
1 3/4; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 2/3; caudal 2 2/3 in 
rest of body, lower 2 rays little extended, fin emarginate, 
no lower notch; pectoral rays 2 4 12 or 13, second of upper 
group prolonged far as adipose fin, forked just behind depressed 
dorsal, uppermost ray about 1/3 of second ray, rays of lower 
group reaching vent; ventral reaches back opposite adipose 
fin, 2 outermost rays prolonged. 
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Black. Fins hyaline gray. Length 140 mm, (^lcock.) 
Arabian Sea and off South Africa. 
