Depth 4 3/5; head 5 2/5, width 2. Snout 3 2/5 in head from snout tip* 
eye 4, 1 1/5 in snout, 4 times interorbital; maxillary long, extends back be¬ 
yond eye or nearly 3 /5 in total head length; mouth large, lower jaw very 
slightly protrudes; teeth in jaws biserial, outer series slender, curved sli¬ 
ghtly and little longer but no canines; tongue broadly rounded in front, with 
slight median notch; interorbital very narrow, bony. Gill rakers 0-f-15 ( on 
second arch), 1 1/2 in gill filaments, which 2 in eye. 
Scales 25-J-3 in median lateral series; 7 transversely from soft 
dorsal origin. Head naked, except occipital region. Scales large on trunk and 
tail, caducous. Scales with 23 to 28 basal striae; apical denticles 34 to 50; 
circuli rather fine. 
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D. VI—I, 9, fourth spine with terminal filament nearly long as head, 
sixth ray 1 1/4; A. I, 11, tenth ray 1 1/12; least depth of caudal peduncle 
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3 1/5; pectoral 1; ventral 1 1/8; caudal 2 1/2 in rest of fish 
Brown, paler below. Back mottled with darker and along side 5 median 
large brownish blotches, last at caudal base. Dorsals and caudal barred finelj 
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ith dusky. Paired fins brown, latter becoming dusky terminally. 
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