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Depth 4 1/4 to 6; head 2 3/4 to 3, width 1 to 1 1/4. Snout 6 1/4 to 
4 7/8 in head from snout tip; eye 3 7/8 to 8 3/4, 1 1/5 to 1 2/5 in snout, 
1 4/5 to 2 in interorbital; maxillary reaches eye or 1/2 in eye, length 2 1/4 
to 2 2/3 in head from snout tip; teeth minute, conic, sharp pointed, in bands 
of several irregular rows in jaws, outer upper widely spaced and enlarged; 
interorbital 3 3/4 to 5, depressed. Groove behind interorbital and postocular 
back above opercle to pectoral base. 
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Scales 57 to 62 in median lateral series to caudal base; 21 or 22 
transversely, 47 to 50 predorsal. Many transverse lines of pores across 
snout, 8 from lower eye edge and horizontal line from above maxi-L-tary end, 
many transverse rows of pores or papillae across amndible, all less promin¬ 
ent in large specimens. Scales with 16 to 19 basal radiating striae; 25 to 
30_24 to 29 imbedded apical denticles; circuli minutely irregular, scales 
on predorsal and front of back more or less cycloid, sometimes absent from 
snout and interorbital anteriorly; often more or less cycloid on chest, 
breast, basal-regions about pectorals and on opercles. 
0 . VI—I, 8,1 or 9,1, third spine 2 7/8 in total head length, second 
ray 2; A. I, 8,1 or 9, i, fourth ray 2 ; caudal 1 1/8 to 1 1/4; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 2 3/4; pectoral 1 l/<o; ventral 1 <•-/>. . 
