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Depth 16; head 4, width 4 3/4? Snout 2? in head; eye 
4 1/2?, 2? in snout, apparently exceeds lnterorbltal; max¬ 
illary reaches eye, about 2? in head; premaxillary teeth 
small, subequal, close set, hooked back with long slender 
front canine each side; lower teeth 10, sharp, slender, une- 
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qual each side, some short, 3 or 4 very long and canine like 
and near front also canine each side; long roiv of palatine 
teeth, 1 or 2 front ones each side besides 1 or 2 others long, 
slender, canine like. No gill rakers; gill filaments little 
less than eye. 
Scales very large, all now fallen. About 55? scales (pock¬ 
ets) in lateral line, which ends Opposite middle of anal. 
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D. 11, fin height 3? in head; A. 25, fin height 3?; cau¬ 
dal 3 1/4?, apparently forked; pectoral damaged; ventral dam¬ 
aged; caudal peduncle very slender, least depth 2/3? of eye. 
Light brown, apparently uniform. 
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Pacific and Indian? Oceans. 
The above account of the badly macerated remains of the 
type, evidently poorly preserved when originally secured. 
