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Gadomus multifilis (part) RADCLIFFE, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 43, p. 106, text fig. 1, 1912. —GILBERT and HUBBS, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 142, 1916 (reference). 
Depth 6 4/5; head 4 3/5, width 2 l/4. Snout to eye 3 2/3 in head 
from snout tip; eye 5 7/8, 1 4/5 in snout, 1 2/5 in interorbital; orbit 4 7/8 
in head from snout tip, 1 l/5 in snout, 1 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 
well behind orbit, length from snout tip 1 3/4 in head; mandibular barbel 
5 l/2; teeth minute, villiform, in bands in jaws of 10 to 12 irregular 
transverse series; interorbital 4 l/2 in head from snout tip, low nearly 
level or little cavernous. Gill rakers 6 + 23 or 24 on first arch, lanceolate, 
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l/2 of eye; gill filaments 2/3 of gill rakers. 
Scales (pockets) 100 in lateral line; 7 above, 14 below, 30 
predorsal. Scales cycloid; circuli very fine, more less complete. 
D. II_t 8-87, second simple ray elongate, filamentous, length 
2 2/5 in combined head and body, fin height of second dorsal 2 l/4? in total 
head length; A. 72, much lower than second dorsal; paeudocaudal 4 in head; 
pectoral rays J[, 17, fin with uppermost ray long filament 2 l/3 in combined 
head and body to pseudocaudal; ventral _I, 7, first simple ray ending in 
filament 4 l/8. 
Brown. Inside mouth gray. Inside gill opening blackish, brown, 
also branchiostegal region. Iris gray. Fins dusky. 
East Indies, Philippines 
