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Depth 4 to 4 1/2; head 3 1/5 to 3 2/3, width 2 to 2 1/2. Snout 6 
to 9 in head from snout tip; eye 4 to 4 3/4, greaterthan snout, 1 1/4 to 
1 1/2 in interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye though not quite 
to well inclined hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 1/4 in head from 
snout tip; interorbital 2 7/8 to 3 1/2, convex. Gill rakers 5 f 13, 
lanceolate, 1 l/4 in eye; gill filaments 3/5 of gill rakers. 
Scales 35 or 36 in lateral line to caudal base, not enlarged; 4 above, 
5 below, 14 predorsal forward to occiput. Scales very caducous, all fallen. 
Caudal base apparently scaly. 
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