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steward's measurements fish bones
Depth peduncle at flukes inserted = 90
" " between " & anuses = 135-
Dist. between tips of blowhole = 361
Twelfth blowhole curved = 41
" anal opening = 10
" mammary " = 19
Dist. between " " s = 87
Length genital slit = 152
Dist. between post. insert, fins below = 410
" " ant. " " = 341
Lower jaw big and upper = 161
" & beginning of white on lower = 440
Width of white band at branching below fins = 100
" " " " narrowest between " near s 25
Length whitish patch on tip of lower jaws = 96
Measurements
No 30 E. obliquidens & June 12 /10 Aikawa
Length straight mouth to flukes = 17551
" over back " " " = 1870
Snout to eye = 280
" " corner of mouth = 330
" " blowhole (center) = 300
" " post. insert, pectoral = 618-4
" " base of dorsal (posterior) = 10/51
Eye to ear (center) = 70
" above " = 9
" opening = 23
Ear " = 1
Notch flukes to anuses = 4861
" " pectoris = 6861
" " post. insert. of dorsal = 8520