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Dark, brown, on body each scale with median paler spot* Iris gray. 
Fin membranes all dark or blackish brown, more or less mottled on soft 
dorsal and caudal* Pectoral specked with dark brown. 
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New Zealand, entering fresh water. According to Gunther a "white 
vertical band across the root of the pectoral fin, very distinct in im¬ 
mature specimens, indistinct or absent in adult ones”. 
