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Depth 5? head 4|-, width 1 %. Snout 2 in head; eye 2^-; mouth 
oblique; maxillary extends ^ in eye; teeth in close set bands in jaws, 
outer row in each little enlarged; eyes close together; at side of lower 
jaw, each side a tusk. Gill opening extends nearly below pectoral base. 
Scales 26 in lateral series. Head and pectoral base naked. 
Dorsal VI - I, 9 to 11, fins separated; Anal I, 8; caudal rounded; 
pectoral rays l6, fin little longer than ventral; ventral rays I, 5? fins 
close together, reach vent. 
Clear green. Head and breast with brownish red, black dots and 
silvery spots. Most scales with small blackish dots. On belly row of 
black spots, also on back, and seen through scales as blackish cross bands. 
Iris with brownish red and silvery rays. Ventrals hyaline, other fins 
finely dotted with black. On side of tail usually a black blotch. 
Length 2 cm. (Klunzinger.) 
Red Sea. Said to differ from the related Eleotris cvanostigma 
Bleeker in its sealess head, the elongated first dorsal spine (not the 
third), and its color. 
