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HAKES


Fishes with two dorsal fins, both soft rayed, second much longer than the first 


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The first dorsal fin consists of one long ray plus about 50 very short rays, only one dorsal ray is obvious, woth three barbels on top of nose With two well developed dorsal fins, the first shorted but usually higher than the second, no barbels on top of the nose

      

 
adapted from Marine Animals of Southern New England and New York by Howard M. Weiss
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