Leaded 
70S 
4 / 4 ; head 3 f ^ U> width 2%. Snout 3 2 /* in head 
' from snout tip; eye 6 to sV^ps.xillary reaches opposite hind pupil edge. 
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expansion 5 / 6 of eye, ien^p^/g to 2 V 5 in head from snout tip; mandible 
protruding; bands of vijplform teeth in jaws and outer row of enlarged con¬ 
ical teeth in each, t|pugh especially enlarged and canine like toward front 
of upper; interorbi^L 3 7 / 8 to 4, convex; hind preopercle edge with several 
v . flattened denticles a^fcfco rn er, ridge entire. Gill rakers removed. 
Scales 60 to o4 in later^Hi^ ^ ^ to caudal base and 24 to 34 more oul 
- over caudal fin] 10 above, 12 below, 62 predor^M; scales smaller along body 
edges, breast, predorsal and fin bases; row of 4^L.rge scales on cheek to 
preopercle ridge; caudal largely covered with mj|fi scales basally. 
D * l> 27 to 29 > fourth spine 2 1 /. i total head length, second 
ray zZ /s> A * J J> 1 > second spine 4, second rg^^/ 5 ; caudal l 1 / 2i least depth 
of caudal peduncle 4; pectoral l 1 /?] ventr*ap 3 / 4 . 
V 
Dull brownish above, silvery 
on sides and below. Fins and 
iris brownish. 
S 
df 
^astern tropical Atlantic^^^Siterranean, Red Sea, Madagascar, Nata 
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South Africa, test Australia, Sout^p|stralia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South 
Wales, Queensland. Mediterraneai^^puaples show gill rakers 7 9 1 with some 
■mm ' 
rudiments for the Australian fon^KBarnard gives 9 or 10 on* lower arch with 
some rudiments. According to Qgiil§ly.t reaches ow 1330 mm, with a weight 
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of 125;lbs., though the average is ujv?%._ 30 (lbs. 
Sciaena heinii S?£lKDACHKlR, bas 
lbs. 
^n a single example 415 miry long 
is likely a l airly matured specimen of the pre^mit species, as its slightly 
emarginate caudal shows. Xt only seems to me to G^|fcP6F in a few more dorsal 
rays, not however much beyond the range of variatiaJftpr the species as I fine 
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them 26 to 29. In brief it shows;. 
