1311 
Depth 10 3/5, 4 2/5 to vent; head 7 3/5 in total, 3 
to vent, width 4 1/4. Snout 3 4/5 in head; eye 5, 1 2/5 in 
snout, greatly exceeds interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/5 
in eye, length 2 3/5 in head; teeth lanceolate, small, uni¬ 
serial and continuous in jaws and on palatines; interorbital 
8, rather low, convex. Gill rakers 3 - 12, lanceolate, slen¬ 
der, rather flexible, longest 1 2/3 in eye; gill filaments 3/5 
gill rakers. 
Sc ales small, adherent, cycloid. Lateral line continuous 
to middle of tail, axial, 
D. VIII, last spine 4 in head; first spine inserted mid¬ 
way between ventral and anal origins; A. XIV, 123?; caudal 4 
1/4 in head; pectoral 1 3/4; ventral 2. 
Uniform pale brown. Iris pale. Inside mouth and gill 
opening blackish. Fins very pale to whitish. 
Off Western Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The 
following is condensed from Gttnther: 
# 
Depth 91/2, 3 3/4 to vent; head ? 1/3 to caudal base, 
width 2 1/8. Snout 3 3/4 in head; eye 5 1/8. Snout 3 3/4 in 
head; eye 5 1/8, 1 1/3 in snout; maxillary reaches 1/2 in eye, 
length from snout tip 2 l/3 in head; teeth uniserial, 28 on 
each premaxillary, 25 on each dentary, palatine series 54; in¬ 
terorbital moderately high. Gill rakers 18, moderately long, 
soft. 
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