Depth I 7/8 to 3; head 3 l/2 to 4 l/3, width I 7/8 to 2. Snout I 3/4 to 
I 4/5; eye 2 3/4 to 5 3/4, I 4/5 to 3 l/2 in snout, I to I 7/8 in 
interortijy^f’ 8 ” teeth 60 to 
in each jaw, slender, little compressed, 
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inted, in young about 24 tof.28 in jaws; maxillary 3 4/5 to 5 1/8 in 
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head; interorbital 2 7/8 to 3,1 convexly elevated. Gill rakers 4 - 10, 
fleshy, broad, short 
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Body minutely aspero\|S, velv§ty to touch; young with larger asperities, 
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velvety. 
D. VI, 27, i, or 28, i, 
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to 2 in head, first ray 
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I 2/3 to 2 l/4; A. II, 27, i to29,/i, second spine 3 to 3 4/5, first 
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ray 2 l/8 to 3 l/8; caudal moderately erflarg4hate, becomes slightly 
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lunate with age, old examples with hind edge/nearly truncate, 3 3/4 to 
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3 4/5 in combined head and body, to tip of/upper lobe I i/l© to I l/8 
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in head; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 6 1/4; pectoral l|l/5 to 
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I 1/2; ventral I l/4 to 2 l/4; caudal peduncle with 2 bucklers* each 
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with compressed denticle and though posterior^ denticle better fLeveloped 
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anterior with longer base or I to I 3/5 in eye; young without bucklers. 
