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no 27 Enis baralis (Peale) June 12/10 Aibara Japan
officialy
This specimen was adult, the teeth however being unworn
Color Below: The extreme tip of the mandible is black for 1.9 mil. There is then portion immediately succeeding is blush white for except a distance of 70 mil. except the outer edges of the mandible lip which have narrow edging of black. Behind this is a funnel shaped area of slate color the "apron" of the funnel being 1.35-mil long and occupying the ventral area of the mandible, the sides of the mandible above this are black. The greatest width of the funnel shaped slate area is 1.80 mil. A narrow white line runs down the exact center of the throat thru' the slate area & the anterior end of the line spreading out & shading off gradually into slate. The posterior end of this median white line fades and narrows gradually until it is 30 mil wide, when yet suddenly branches out each arm running obliquely backward & upward to the anterior insertion of the sectoral fins, &t runs obliquely up & back on the under base of the fin ending in a point. From the The white begins again at the extreme base of the fins runs straight back for a distance of 1.10 mil, then curves rather abruptly down & back