45. STOMIATID^E. 285 



lower jaw projecting, the suout mucli shorter than eye. Mouth ex- 

 tremely wide, the cleft reaching much beyond eye. Premaxillaries 

 with four long fang-like canines on each side. Mandible with pointed, 

 wide-set teeth, the anterior ones excessively long; none of these large 

 teeth received within the month. Maxillaries with fine teeth; palatine 

 with a single series of small pointed teeth; 110 teeth on the tongue. 

 Eye moderate. Pectorals moderate. Veutrals large. Dorsal fin high, 

 placed anteriorly, well in front of the ventrals. Adipose fin moderate, 

 sometimes fimbriate, opposite the low, short anal. Caudal moderate, 

 forked. Gill-openings very wide. 'No gill-rakers. Brauchiostegals 

 numerous. (-/aul'.<>-, exserted; do<iu~, tooth.) 



469. C. slosna Bloch & Schneider. 



Greenish above ; sides silvery; belly blackish. Dorsal not far behind 

 head, its first ray produced in a long filament. Pectoral fins short. 

 Ventral fins elongate, longer than head. About 30 phosphorescent dots 

 in a series from the chin to the ventrals. Scales of the body subhexag- 

 oual. Head nearly as deep as long, 7 in total length; depth about the 

 same. B. 17; D. 6; A. 1L> ; Y. 7; Lat. 1. 56. L. 12 inches. (G farther.) 

 Mediterranean and deep waters of the Atlantic ; a specimen found in 

 the stomach of a cod on George's Banks. 



(Blocb & Schneider, 430; Gunther, v, 392.) 



FAMILY XLV. STOMIATIDJE. 

 (The Stomiatoids.) 



Body elongate, naked or covered with thin deciduous scales. Mouth 

 very wide. Lateral margin of upper jaw formed by the niaxillaries, 

 which are provided with teeth along their edges. Teeth usually very 

 strong, unequal, some of them often fang-like. Gill-membranes not 

 joined, free from the isthmus. Brauchiostegals numerous. A long 

 fleshy barbel suspended from the throat. No pseudobranchine. Sides 

 with phosphorescent spots. Dorsal fin short, median or posterior, with- 

 out spines. Adipose fin present or absent. Pectorals, and ventrals 

 present. Opercular apparatus incomplete. Skeleton feebly ossified. 

 Eggs excluded through oviducts. Deep-sea fishes of the Atlantic. 

 Genera 4; species 8 or 10. 



(Stomiatidcc Giiuther, v, 424.) 



*No adipose fin; dorsal opposite anal. (Stomiatince.) 



a. Body with fine deciduous scales STOMIAS, 134. 



aa. Body naked. 



