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Depth 13 or 14; head 4 to 4 1/4, width 6 to 6 1/2. 
Snout 2 to 2 1/10 in head from snout tip; eye 6 1/4 to 6 l/2, 
3 to 3 1/8 in snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary 
reaches 1 1/4 to 1 2/5 in snout, 2 1/2 to 2 2/3 in head from 
snout tip; interorbital 8 to 9 1/5, level, depressed medially; 
opercle with 8 or 9 radiating striae. Gill rakers as numer¬ 
ous close set minute or villiform points; gill filaments 
greatly longer or 1 7/8 in eye. 
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Scales 60 in lateral line, ending over middle of anal. 
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D. II, 6, first branched ray 5? in total head length; 
adipose fin 6 3/4; A. IV, 30, first branched ray 3 3/5; caudal 
4 2/3, well forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 1 2/3 in 
eye; pectoral 4 in total head length; ventral 5? 
Uniform brownish. Iris neutral gray. Silvery white 
reflections on opercle. Fins pale or whitish, with dusky tints 
basally. 
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Most of my materials badly 
preserved,* so the above description necessarily imperfect. 
