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Depth 4 i to 4 3/5; head 3 1/3 to 3 2/5, width 1 4/5 to 2. 
Snout 4 to 4 ^ in head; eye 3 <£ to 4, greater than snout and greatly 
exceeds narrow interorbital; maxillary reaches 1/2 in eye, length 3 in 
head; teeth simple, conic, close set, in narrow bands in jaws; inter¬ 
orbital very narrow low ridge, width 1/4 of eye; long, conspicuous 
preopercular spine subequal with to slightly longer than eye. Gill 
opening lateral slit, about 2 J in head. 
Scales 20 or 21 + 2 in axial lateral series from behind 
suprascapula; 9 transversely above anal origin. Head, chest, breast, 
prepectoral and predorsal regions naked. Scales with 9 to 15 basal 
radiating striae; 25 to 36 apical denticles, uniserial, graduated 
larger laterally; circuli very fine. 
D. VI -f- I, 10, 1 or I, 11, i, spines flexible terminally 
and third reaches back to middle of soft dorsal, tenth or eleventh 
branched ray also extended or ending in long filament which may reach 
middle of caudal; A. I, 9? i* and last ray filamentous like last dorsal 
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ray or may reach 1/3 in caudal; caudal subequal in young, to 2 4 in 
