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of it is exposed when the mouth is closed. The mouth is equipped with large teeth shaped like compressed canines which are well separated and arranged in 1-2 rows along the sides of the roof of the mouth with a patch of smaller teeth in the middle. The margin of the preopercle is smooth and the rear of the gill cover has two flattened points. The
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626:Fish described in 1860
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261:Habitat and biology
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304:zoologist
293:described
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