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Depth 6 to 7 4/5j head 5 1/4 to 5 2/3, width 1 3/4 to 2 l/8. 
Snout to eye 3 l/4 to 4 1/8 in head; eye 6 to 7 l/4, 2 in snout, 1 
3/5 to 1 3/4 in interorbital; orbit 4 l/4 to 5 2/5 in head, 1 l/8 
to 1 1/4 in snout, maxillary reaches hind eye edge or hind orbital 
edge, length from front end 2 2/3 to 2 4/5 in head; mandibular bar¬ 
bel 1 to 1 1/4 in eye; teeth simple, conic, rather small, similar, 
uniserial in jaws; interorbital 3 3/4 to 4 in head, low, depressed 
forward. Gill rakers 1+10 short spinescent tubercles on first 
arch, 1/3 of gill filaments, which 1 1/8 in eye, 
Scales 140 to 150 in lateral line; 8 above, 19 below, 50 pre¬ 
dorsal. Scales with 8 or 9 low spinuliferous apical parallel keels, 
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last spines not extended behind hind scale edge; circuli fine, 
extended apically. 
D. 11, 8 or II, 9—140 to 150, second * a/ i tj^/ r ay pungent, with 
row of antrorse serrae along its front edge; interdorsal space 1 
2/5 to 2 1/8 in head; A. 110 to 120, fin height 3 1/4; pectoral rays 
I, 19 to 20, fin 1 1/2 to 1 2/3 in head; ventral rays I, 8, fin 1 
7/8 to 2 1/8. 
Uniform brown, edge of gill opening blackish brown. Iris brown. 
Inside mouth gray. Inside gill opening blackish brown. Fins all 
dark brown. 
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Western Atlantic* 
