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Transcription
inside jaw light slate-blue as in
Tympanum.
Posterior border features black above
white below mixed with black toward
tip of caudal margin.
External characters see photo of dorsal fin.
Superior edge of scabrum waved with
shallow crenulations from a point
opposite the anus to the flexure - two
well marked furrows seen in area
the features at insertion - likewise
look like this V / - The pleural fins are
situated have their anterior ends at
the highest part of the scabrum
in the tip of the head between them
is a deep crease or sinus. This
posterior end of the opening is the
widest - a crease runs beyond the
end of the opening at both the ant.
& post. ends. The scabrum surrounding
it in which the pleural fins are
situated varies greatly with height;
in some animals it is very prominent
but in others much less, & on
slope from the median line of the top
of the head in gradual like this -
The widest fold
ant. was on belly part at the posterior end.