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Synodus acutus Garman 
Synodus acutus GARMAN. Mem. Mus. Gomp. Zool., vol. 24, 
1899, p. 252. N. 7° 40» W. 79° 17* 50*', 127 fathoms; 
N. 7° 26* 10" W. 79° 53' 50", 56 fathoms, off Panama. 
Head 41/2 In total, narrowing forward, width 2. Snout 
4 in head; eye 4, orbit cutting profile of crown; premaxillary 
extends 1/2 eye diameter behind eye; teeth small, slender, 
unequal, depressible, in narrow bands in Jaws, palatines and 
at each side of middle of tongue; crown depressed, slightly 
concave, shallow groove on interorbital. 
Scales 55 in lateral line; 5 above, 6 below, 4 rows on 
cheek. 
D. 11, third ray long as postocular, origin midway be¬ 
tween snout and adipose fin, fin long as ventral; A. 11; pect¬ 
oral less than ventral, 2 1/2 in head. 
Light grayish to grayish olive. Flanks below lateral 
line and sides of head yellowish to silvery. Belly silvery. 
Ten brown blotches on lateral line and half scale width lower 
second series of twice as many smaller and fainter. Faint 
indications of transverse bands on back, connecting with larger 
blotches in younger. Dorsal and caudal darker backward. Adi¬ 
pose fin with light ®dg$s. Anal and ventrals yellowish white. 
