1435 
Snout 5 2/3 to 7 1/4; head 3 to 3 2/5, width 2 1/8 to 
2 1/5. Snout 4 to 4 1/8 in head; eye 4 to 5, 1 to 1 1/6 
in snout, greater than interorbital in young to subequal 
with age; adipose eyelids marginal, very narrow; premaxillary 
reaches half eye diameter behind eye, length 1 3/4 to 1 5/6 
in head; interorbital 4 to 4 1/4, concave. Gill rakers 
numerous, fine, minute spinules; gill filaments 1 2/5 in eye. 
Scales 52 or 53 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 
more on latter; 5 above, 6 below, 16 predorsal, 4 postocular 
rows to preopercle ridge. Pectoral axillary scale 1/4 of fin 
ventral axillary scale 1/3 of fin. Scales with 3 basal rad¬ 
iating striae, edge scalloped; clrculi very fine, not extend¬ 
ing apically. 
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D. II, 9, I, first branched ray 1 2/5 to 1 5/6 in total 
head length; adipose fin 5 3/4 to 6; A. Ill, 8, I, first 
branched ray 2 2/3 to 3 2/5; caudal 1 3/5 to 1 3/4?, well 
forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 5 to 6; pectoral 1 1/2 
to 1 3/4; ventral 1 3/5 to 1 4/5. 
Back brown, mottled with paler, lower and under surfaces 
whitish. Along lateral line 8 to 10 dark brown blotches, 
each usually giving off small dark spot below and alternate 
one in each interspace, also below. Iris silvery white. 
Opercle clouded darker. Dorsal and pectoral brownish. Adi¬ 
pose fin brown, with pale edge. Other fins paler. 
Off Colombia 
