Depth 4 4/5 to 5; head 3 2/5, width 2 1/2. Snout 5 to 7 in head from 
snout tip; eye 4 to 5 7/8, greater than snout, greater than interorbital in 
young to 1 l/4 with age; maxillary extends 1 1/4 to 2 1/4 eye diameters 
behind eye though not quite to well inclined hind preopercle edge, slender, 
length 1 l/3 to 1 l/2 in head; interorbital 3 to 3 1/4, low, depressed. 
Gill rakers 5 + 12, of which slender, lanceolate, 1 1/5 in eye, subequal 
with gill filaments. 
Scales 40 in lateral line to caudal base, enlarged or much deeper 
than others; 3 above, 3 below. Caudal base scaly. Scales very caducous, 
mostly all fallen. 
