Depth 4 1/8 to 5 2/3; head 3 2/5 to 4, width 2 to 2 1/8. Snou' 
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3 1/8 to 3 1/2 in head from snout tip; eye 4 3/4 to 5, 1 1/4 to 1 1/3 in snout 
2 to 3 times interorbital width; maxillary reaches 3 /4 in eye, length 2 in 
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head from snout tip; teeth moderate, conic, uniserial above, variably biserial 
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or triserial teeth in front of jaw; lower teeth triserial anteriorly, varia¬ 
bly quadriserial and become biserial laterally; tongue convex in front; inter 
orbital narrowly concave. Gill rakers 2-(—8, lanceolate, half length of gill 
filaments, which 1 7/8 in eye. 
Scales 65 to 81-J- in median lateral series; 16 to 22 transversely; 
25 predorsal. Row of fine papillae down from front eye edge vertically toward 
maxillary medially and horizontal branch forward along preorbital; row along 
and close below lower eye edge, with branch downward irom antero-inferior eye 
edge and with 2 shorter from postero-inferior eye edge; 2 horizontal lines 
also extend across cheek which may be more or less connected by 1 or 2 inter 
extensions; line over and along front opercle edge, bar above horizontal and 
another below obliquely; short line above behind hind nostril; vertical bar 
and 2 horizontal from behind eye; postocular line also extending to suprascap- 
ula. Scales with 24 to 29 close set radiating basal striae; apical denticles 
23 to 25; circuli fine. 
VI—I, 12, i, first spine 1 to 1 2/5 in total head length, 
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