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white looks like the crust of wood - from
nare to nucha below are small irregular
markings, very light gray, almost white.
Throat + breast + flps, to about three feet
behind fins is lighter slate like head - rest
of belly is like feldspar, light blue gray -
from the insertion of fins running obliquely
backward downward toward but not
meeting air, the median deris are really
dark colored markings, with now and then
a small white one - there are a very few
dark colored ones on the breast just
in front of insertion of fins.
From dorsal fin to pectorals top edge of
feldspar is entirely solid color - no
markings whatever.
Pectorals - light blue gray below, lined with
regular lines almost white. Above color of
head (light slate) lined with lighter white 13 deep
Pectorals alone slate; anal edge white for
distal 1/3 - 4 markings on top at insertion.
Below fin is milk white.
Dorsal fin is only a rounded ridge
like this:
bottoms of furrows from a point opposite
tip of gulf back, all pink - rest of are
the furrows same color as field -
External Characters notch of pectorals
1/3 deep - median crease between below -
livers only 38 long. The feet is 5 long - its
tip is divided into small finger like processes.