Depth I 7 
head 3 to 3 
STT'- 
5; eye 2 
t ol66, 2 
.'CW 5 ^ 
to 4 
width 2 to 2 
in snout, I to I 
Snout I 
in 
interorhital; teeth 46§o 38 in Jaws, small, compressed moderately; 
I® 
maxillary 3 2/5 to4 in ;;head; interorbital 3 l/8 to 3 l/ 2 , broadly 
^ Jp 
convex. Gill rakers 4*9, short, clavate, robust. 
- 
Skin very finely aspfrous, finely velvety to touch; in young scales 
'itO 
. vv- •_ 
very small,slightly roug%r. 
D. VI, 27, i or 28, i, first spine 2 to 2 l/2 injhead, first ray 
I 3/4 to 2 1/4; A. II, 27, i to 29, i, second £ 
3 to 3 l/8, first 
with 
ray 2 7/8 to 3 l/8; caudal emarginate, hind edge ||arly truncate 
! \ 
age, upperand lower tips produced in slender fila|pnts nearly long as 
■ il§ 
■ S%s- 
head, 2 3/4 to 3 3/4 in combined head and body; Jfast depth of caudal 
: ;fJpl 
I l/2; vent ip, 1 
peduncle 5 to 5 3/4 in head; pectoral^I 7/8 to 2 |/3; caudal pedunc e 
with 2 bony bucklers, each with denticle flattened^ curved forward, 
anterior usually larger or its base equals or slight©r than 
eye; no bucklers in very young. 
