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Halosaurop sis rldgewayl new species 
Depth 12 1/4 to 16, 5 2/3 to 6 3/5 to vent; head 6 9/10 
to 7 In total, 3 to 3 1/8 to vent, width 3 1/5 to 3 1/2. 
Snout to eye 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 In head; orbit 4 1/4 to 4 1/3; 
eye 5 1/5 to 5 2/3, 1 7/8 to 2 in snout, greater than inter- 
orbital in young; maxillary reaches orbit, length from snout 
tip 2 3/4 to 2 7/8 in head; teeth in vllllform bands in jaws 
and on palatines, on latter closely approximated or scarcely 
interrupted; bony lnterorbltal 12 1/4 to 14, narrow, nearly 
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level or depressed. Gill rakers 4 4 lanceolate, rather 
robust, 3/4 of gill filaments, which 1/2 of orbit. 
Scales 4G to 50 in lateral line to vent, not enlarged; 
12 above, 3 below, 33 to 35 predorsal forward to snout tip. 
Head scaly over all upper surface and postocular. Fins all 
more or less scaly basally. Scales with 12 to 16 long basal 
radiating striae; circuli moderate, not extended apically. 
D. I, 9, I, first branched ray 1 4/5 to 1 9/10 in head, 
inserted at first fifth between ventral and anal origins; 
A. 140, longest front rays 2 2/3 to 2 4/5; tail long, slender 
forming fine filament; pectoral 1 l/2 to 1 3/5; ventral 2 
1/6 to 2 2/5. 
