803 . 
1871 (1873) (name). 
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Depth 6 to 6 3/5; head 4 2/3 to 5 l/5, width 2 to 2 l/4. Snout 
to eye 3 l/3 to 3 2/3 in head; eye 3 l/3 to 5 l/4, 1 to 1 l/2 in 
snout, 1 l/4 to 1 7/8 in intororbital; orbit 3 l/8 to 3 3/5 in head, 
V 
1 in snout, 1 l/6 to 1 l/4 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/4 to 
4/5 in eye, length from front ed 2 7/8 to 3 in head; mandibular bar¬ 
bel 4 to 7 in eye; teeth small, in 3 or 4 irregular series, upper 
outer series little enlarged; interorbital 2 l/2 to 3 in head, broad¬ 
ly convex. Gill rakers 4 ♦ 14 low points on second arch, l/2 of gill 
filaments, which 3 l/2 in eye. 
Scales 170 in lateral line; 11 above, 22 below, 50 predorsal of 
which about 20 to occiput. Scales with 22 to 25 irregular series of 
long slender apical spinules, last of which extend well beyond scale 
edge; cirouli moderate, not extended apically. 
D. II, 10-167 to 170, with second simple ray slender and its 
front edge with row of antrorse spines, first branched ray 1 2/3 to 
1 3/4? in head; interdorsal space 2 to 2 3/4; A. 178 to 180, fin 
h4(tght 3 3/4 to 4 1 / 4 ? in head; pectoral rays I, 16, fin 1 l/2 to 1 
7/8 in head; ventral I, 7, fin 1 l/5 to 1 2/5 times head, first 
2m 
simple ray long and filamentous. 
Uniform brownish. Iris pale to whitish. Inside mouth brown. 
Inside gill opening blackish brown. Pins more or less dusky. 
North Atlantic. Young often with pale or even slightly silvered 
tints on sides of head and trunk. 
