570 
Depth 7 to 7 l/8; head 5 to 5 l/3, width 1 7/8 to 2. Snout 
3 2/3 to 3 3/4 in head; eye 3 l/3 to 3 3/5, greater than snout or 
interorbital; maxillary reaches 4/5 in or to hind eye edge, length 1 4/5 
to 1 7/8 in head; mandibular barbel absent or long as 5 in eye; teeth minute, 
in villiform bands in jaws of 7 more or less defined close set rows above and 
5 or 6 below; interorbital 3 l/2 to 5 in head, nearly level, though with 
irregular depressions. Gill rakers 6 or 7 + 19 or 20, lanceolate, 2 2/3 
in eye; gill filaments l/2 of gill rakers. 
Scales 135 in axial or medial lateral series, of which 27 forward 
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of vent; 6 above, 12 below, 40 predorsal# Scales very caducous, most all 
fallen, apparently equally as large on head as on body# Scales cycloid, 
without striae; circuli moderately fine, form angles at horizontal or 
medial axial basally* 
D* JLL* 8 - 125, second simple ray 2 7/8 in head, though ends of 
most rays broken; A* 112, rays all much lower or shorter than dorsal rays; 
pseudocaudal small, short, 1/? of eye; pectoral rays I? 16, fin 1 2/3 to 2 
in head; ventral rays j[_, 7, fin 1 l/2 to 1 3/4 in head, origin before first 
dorsal origin* 
Very light brown, with slightly silvered tints, belly and under .* 
surfaces of head nearly whitish* Iris silvery white* Inside mouth and 
gill opening blackish though outer branchiostegal region whitish* 
Fins all largely pale to whitish, dorsal and anal 
posteriorly and caudal dusky to dark brown#, 
Gulf of Mexico* Known by its light or pale coloration and the 
head much larger than the trunk* 
