L 
828. 
Depth 9 to 9 2/5; head 6 3/4 to 7 l/3, -width 2 to 2 2/5. Snout 
4 to 4 2/5 in head, 1 2/5 to 1 l/2 in eye; eye 2 l/2 to 3 2/5 in 
head, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches l/3 to 2/5 
in eye, length 2 2/3 to 2 7/8 in head; mandibular barbel 2 2/5 to 3 
1/4 in eye; teeth minutely villiform, in bands in jaws of 6 to 8 irreg¬ 
ular rows; interorbital 3 2/5 to 3 l/2 in head, 1 l/lO to 1 3/5 in eye, 
low, slightly convex. Gill rakers 0+9 low spinescent tubercles on 
second arch, l/3 of gill filaments, which 2 3/4 in eye. 
Scales 175 in lateral line; 7 above, 21 or 22 below, 13 predorsal 
forward to occiput, which about first fifth between hind orbital edge 
and first dorsal origin. Scales with cluster of 5 to 10 irregular, 
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mostly erect, slender, long, divergent spinules, most extending well 
beyond scale limits; circuli moderate, not extended apically* 
II , 8 or II , 9—JL57?, second simple ray slender, pungent, 
* 
entire, filamentous terminally, Z. to 2 l/5 in head; interdorsal space 
4 to 4 l/2; A. 145?, fin head 3 3/5?/ pectoral rays I, 12, fin 2 l/2 
to 3 in head; ventral fin ray I, 6 (damaged). 
Brown, more or less uniform. Mandible, under surface of head, 
inclusive of opercles, chest and belly dark neutral to blackish brown. 
Iris dark gray. Inside iris gray. Inside gill opercle blackish 
brown. Fins all brown. 
West Indies. Rough velvety to touch, covered with fine erect 
spinules and scales well imbedded so as to appear scarcely distinct. 
The tail is very long, slender and tapering nearly to filament. 
