Body elongate, partly cylindrical, little compressed, except posterior 
fourth, and dorsal and ventral profiles nearly straight and parallel. Head 
short, broad. Snout short. Bye small, little advanced from middle in 
head length. Maxillary oblique, reaches below front of eye. Lower jaw 
large, protrudes in front. Several rows of teeth in each jaw, upper outer 
row rather large, conic, followed by 4 or 5 rows of minute villiform 
teeth, and on each side behind median line 2 canines directed back. Lower 
outer teeth 4, large, coarse, each side of symphysis, and posteriorly 4 
rows of minute teeth like those in upper jaw. Interorbital space broad. 
Scales about 165 in lateralseries, 40 transversely. Scales cycloid, more 
or less embedded and difficult tosse. Breast scaly on posterior half. 
Very small scales on pectoral, caudal, and on head above opercle, rest of 
head scaleless. Cheeks crisscrossed by lines of minute papillae. Hind 
preopercle edge marked by large pores, also behind eye and beside each 
nostril. Hirst dorsal v/ith 6 spines, second dorsal with spine and 10 rays. 
Anal with spine and 10 rays. Caudal short, rounded. Paired fins short, 
reach less than half way to anus. 
