2102 
Depth 5 to 6 1/3; head 3 to 3 1/2, width 2 l/5 to 3. Snout 6 1/5 
to 7 1/2 in head from snout tip; eye 4 2/5 to 5, greater than snout, 
1 1/8 to 1 l/4 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 1 1/2 to 2 1/5 eye 
diameters beyond eye though not quite to hind well inclined preopercle 
edge, slender, length 1 1/4 to 1 2/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
3 1/2 to 5, level. Gill rakers 4 or 5 f 10, slender, lanceolate, 1 to 
1 l/5 in eye; gill filaments 1 2/3 in gill rakers. 
Scales 38 to 40 in lateral line to caudal base, enlarged, deep, 
narrowly imbricated; 3 above, 3 below, 14 predorsal to occiput. Caudal 
base scaly. Scales all very caducous, mostly lost in preserved examples. 
