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Depth 5 4/5 to 9; head 3 2/5 to 4 3/5, width 1 7/8 to 
2. Snout 3 1/4 to 3 7/8 in head; eye 4 1/2 to 7 1/2, 2 in 
snout, 1 1/2 in interorbital; premaxillary reaches 1 3/5 
eye diameters behind eye, length 11/4 to 1 2/3 in head; 
interorbital 4 2/5 to 6, concave. Gill rakers as minute 
numerous spinules; gill filaments equal eye. 
Scales 56 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 
to 6 more on latter; 5 or 6 above, 6 or 7 below, 22 tc 30 
predorsal, 6 or 7 rows on postocular to preopercle ridge 
Axillary pectoral scale 3 1/3 in fin, ventral axillary scale 
3 in fin. Scales with 3 basal radiating striae; circuli fine 
not extended apically. 
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D. II, 8, I to II, 11, I, first branched ray 1 3/5 to 
1 2/3 in head; adipose fin 4 1/2 to 6 1/2; A. II, 9, I to II, 
11, I, first branched ray 2 4/5 to 3 1/6; caudal 1 2/5 to 
1 1/2, well forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 4/5 to 
5; pectoral 1 7/8 to 1 9/10; ventral 1 1/8 to 1 1/3. 
Back brown, finely mottled with paler, under surfaces 
whitish. Iris silver white. Fins brownish, lower ones paler 
Massachusetts to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, 
Bermuda, Caribbean Sea, Trinidad, Brazil. 
