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f Umbrina cirrhosa (not LINN. 
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1860, p. 274 (Algoa Bay). - ST 
JI0NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 
LCHKER, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 
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Math.-nat. Kl., vol. 86, pt. 1, 18$8$|-.p. 61, pi. 1 (Red Sea at Suez); 
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Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 32, ho.^4-25, Nov. 21, 1895, p. 259 
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(Suez). 
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Depth 2/2 to 3; head 3 to JhJ||* Eye 4 to 4 ^/ 4 * 1 V 3 i n snout, 1 V 4 
in interorbital; maxillary reache^fPjre center, length 2 /c in head; barbel 
jifp ' 
4 in eye; preorbital depth na|gpp:l te equal to eye. Gill rakers 8 or 9 on low- 
er front arch, lower axie& mm &'e knobs. 
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Scales 52 tq^^P in lateral line; 9 to 11 above, 16 to 18 below; 
scales ctenoid, also.Same on head and breast* Lateral line 3 to 5 branched 
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in tubes. 
D. X, I, 24 o': 
in head or 2^/g in body depth; 
third spine or third and fourth longest, about 2 
7, second spine stout, 3 in head or 
1 1 / 2 / 
3 /2 in body depth and to /g longesl§|ray; caudal subtruncate in adult. 
m- 
Grayish above, whitish below, w^tt silvery sheen, with 17 to 20 more 
ffr 
or less distinct, dark, oblique, somewh^pWavy streaks, narrower than^ntervali 
Pectoral axil dark. Spinous dorsentral blackish, other fins grayish, 
soft dorsal with dark edge. Les§§§|p to 700 mm. (Barnard.) 
South Africa. B&fpii 8 ^ distinguishes this species from Sciaena 
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cirrhosa by 2 or 3 more djprsal rays, lower spinous sal, less distinct 
stripes and not blue bon 
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ateral line. 
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