Depth 4 4/5; head 2 3/4, width 1 3/5. Snout 3 1/2 in head from 
snout tip; eye 6 1/3, 1 2/3 in snout, 2 1/6 in interorbital; maxillary 
reaches 1/2 in eye, length 2 2/5 in head from snout tip; teeth villiform, 
in rather broad bands in jaws, none on palate; tongue smooth, obtusely 
rounded in front; interorbital 3. Gill rakers 4-f-ll, lanceolate, equal 
gill filaments or 2 1/3 in eye. 
Scales 32-|~ll in median lateral series; 12 transversely between 
second dorsal and anal origins; 22 predorsal. Muzzle naked, rest of head 
scaled. Cheek with 2 horizontal rows of minute pores and 8 short postocular 
rows; scales on lower cheek small. Caudal and paired fins with small scales 
crowded basally. Scales with 17 to 29 basal radiating striae; apical 
denticles 110 to 112; circuli fine. 
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D. VI— I, 8, i, second spine 1 9/10 in total head length, eighth 
ray 1 2/5; A. 1, 7, 1, seventh ray 1 2/3; caudal 1 1/10, rounded behind; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 2 2/5; pectoral 1 2/5; ventral 1 2/5. 
Deep olive brown, little paler or more brownish on belly and under 
surface of head. Sides with dark or neutral black spots scattered at bases 
of some scales. Dorsals and caudal deep Vandyke brown; soft dorsal with upper 
edge pale to whitish and membranes of fin with fine scattered neutral dusky 
spots. Caudal finely spotted with dusky. Anal like soft dorsal. Paired fins 
dull brown. Iris brownish. 
