. Fig. II. Notothenia cyanobrancha. x |. Depth of body 4 to 5 in the length, length of head 3 to 4. Snout as long as or a little longer than eye, diameter of which is 4 to 6| in length of head; interorbital width 5 to 6|. Jaws equal anteriorly; maxillary extending to below middle or posterior part of eye; upper surface of head naked except for a few temporal and post-temporal scales, which may be absent in the young; cheek scaly behind and below eye, the lower \ (young) or \ (aduh) naked; upper part of operculum scaly; 10 to 13 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body ctenoid
. Fig. II. Notothenia cyanobrancha. x |. Depth of body 4 to 5 in the length, length of head 3 to 4. Snout as long as or a little longer than eye, diameter of which is 4 to 6| in length of head; interorbital width 5 to 6|. Jaws equal anteriorly; maxillary extending to below middle or posterior part of eye; upper surface of head naked except for a few temporal and post-temporal scales, which may be absent in the young; cheek scaly behind and below eye, the lower \ (young) or \ (aduh) naked; upper part of operculum scaly; 10 to 13 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body ctenoid; 60 to 70 in a longitudinal series from above base of pectoral to caudal; 32 to 39 in upper lateral line which ends below posterior part of dorsal; lower lateral line, when developed, with 6 to 15 tubular scales- Dorsal IV-VI, 33-36. Anal 30-34. Pectoral with 20 or 21 rays, f to f length of head, as long as or longer than pelvics, which do not generally reach the vent in aduh. Caudal rounded; caudal peduncle much deeper than long. More or less uniformly brownish or black, but sometimes with traces of darker markings; usually an oblique dark stripe from eye to angle of praeoperculum, and another below this; all the fins more or less dusky or blackish, at least in adult.
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