S5t 
Depth 6 l/2 to 7 3/5; head 5 l/4 to 5 7/8, width 2. Snout 
3 l/4 to 3 2/3 in head from snout tip; eye 4 3/5 to 5 l/4, 1 l/3 to 1 3/5 in 
snout, 1 2/3 to 1 7/8 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/4 or to hind eye 
edge, length 1 3/4 to 1 7/8 in head from snout tip; teeth in close set 
villiform bands, of which 10 irregular rows transversely above and 5 below; 
interorbital 3 l/lO to 3 2/5 in head, low, unevenly convex. Gill rakers 
6 + 21, lanceolate, l/2 of eye; gill filaments 3/4 of gill rakers. 
Scales 143? in axial lateral series, of which 20 forward of vent; 
4 or 5 above, 14 below. Scales very caducous, most all fallen. On head 
scales apparently small on muzzle, otherwise on head large as on body. 
Scales without striae, thin, simple; circuli well marked, complete, 
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moderately small. 
D. II, 9, 120? to 124 (ends of all rays damaged); A. 102 to 105 
(ends of all rays damaged), origin opposite first dorsal origin; no 
pseudocaudal; pectoral rays 1_, 14, length 1 4/5 to 2 l/5 in total head 
length; ventral rays 1_, 8, length 2 l/2 in total head length. 
Dark brown, though some preserved examples apparently bleached 
whitish. Usually head and belly swarthy to blackish. Iris gray to whitish. 
Inside mouth and gill opening blackish, also branchiostegal flaps. Fins 
brownish, paired ones often dark! 
West Indies, Gulf of Mexico. Although the fins are damaged in 
my materials none seem to show the ventrals longer than pectorals, as in 
Goode and Bean's figure. This last also shows very regular squamation on 
the body, though the scale pockets would indicate the scale rows as 
quite irregular. 
