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fins
from travel to presence
Tongue blue - inside both, rami upper half
white - lower half light blue gray - roof of
mouth black.
Below black including barstles - baram begins
20 from tip of snout
Flukes about blue gray finely lined with darker
lines so not clear post edge
which is dark very thin - the
end of the fin fluke is blunt - has been injured
Below fluke more light, finely lined with
darkness.
Dorsal Fin is blunt - has been injured.
it is only a hunch or wound looks like
this:
Pectoral Fins, left. Fin same like head - has
a few spots or markings on posterior
half - underside fin is flesh colored with
many gray markings on pectoral that
these markings mostly take the form of
two series running from post edge
half way across fin.
Right fin same above - below
flesh colored, with long narrow long-
streaky gray lines mostly near
the anterior edge and all distally -
the dark color of the upper surface news
uses between the post edge proximately -
External characters The reverse vertebral row