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Depth 4 3/4 to 5; head 3 1/4 to 3 2/5, width 2 1/3 to 2 2/5. Snout 
6 to 6 1/4 in head; eye 3 2/3 to 3 3/4, greater than snout, 1 to 1 1/5 
in interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye though not to hind 
oblique preopercle edge, slender, length 1 1/3 to 1 3/5 in head; inter¬ 
orbital 3 to 3 1/5, broad, little convex. Gill rakers 8 > 17, lanceolate, 
1 1/3 in eye; gill filaments 1/2 gill rakers. 
Scales 35 to 36 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 
3? above, 4? below; not enlarged in lateral line, tubes large and prominent. 
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Scales very caducous, most all fallen. Oaudal base scaly. 
