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Depth 4 to 4 1/4; head 3 1/3 to 3 2/3, width 2* Snout 5 1/2 to 6 1/3 
in head from snout tip; eye 2 1/5 to 2 2/5, greater than snout or inter¬ 
orbital; maxillary extends little beyond eye though not quite to vertical 
preopercle edge, expansion 3 1/5 to 3 1/4 in eye, length 11/2 to 1 3/5 
in head from snout tip$ interorbital 3 to 3 1/2, nearly flat* Gill rakers 
8 4 19 to 22, lanceolate, 1 3/5 in eye, twice gill filaments. 
Scales 36 or 37 in lateral line, scales enlarged; 3 above, 3 below, 12 
or 13 predorsal to occiput* Large scales on cheek and opercle* All fins 
more or less scaly* Ventral axil with large pointed scale* Scales ctenoid, 
firm, not spiniferous in lateral line. Scales with 3 to 5 basal radiating 
striae; circuli fine, obsolete apically* 
Antorbital photophore small, ventral on front eye edge; 2 operculars, 
upper little larger, on line with lower eye edge and lower subpectoral 
photophore; 3 equidistant veiled branchiostegals; 5 pectorals, second and 
third closest; 1 suprapectoral, little above and before pectoral origin, 
much nearer latter than lateral line; 2 subpectorals, lower in line with 
suprapectoral and second ventral though much nearer latter than upper sub¬ 
pectoral, which close before bases of lowest pectoral rays; 4 ventrals, 
equidistant; 1 supraventral, midway to slightly lower in space between 
lateral line and ventral fin base; 8 to 10 f 3 to 5 anals; 3 supraanals, in 
slightly curved line with first or lowest little before fourth ventral, also 
closer to latter than to second supraanal, which midway nearly between first 
supraanal and third or uppermost supraanal, which close below lateral line 
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and opposite anal fin origin; 1 posterolateral above last anteroanal, close 
below lateral line; 2 close set precaudals, second slightly raised. In- 
fraoaudal luminous scales 3. 
