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Figure 6. — Medial views of right otoliths, anterior end to the left. 



A. Tarnihif/iclithys miniimts, otolith 2.0 mm long, specimen 49 mm. 



B. T. bathyphilidi, otolith 1.8 mm long, specimen 64 mm. 



C. T. ixtiirolycIiriKS, otolith 1.7 mm long, specimen 87 mm. 



D. T. batluiphUiis, otolith 2.8 mm long, specimen (from north Atlantic) 60 mm. 



of the State of California Department of Fish 

 and Game for comments concerning otoliths. 



I am indebted to several jieople and their in- 

 stitutions for making si)ecimens available: Rob- 

 ert L. Wisner, Scripps Institution of Oceanogra- 

 phy (SIO); Julian Badcock, National Institute 

 of Oceanography, Surrey, England; Roljert J. 

 Lavenberg; Jorgen Niel.sen, Zoological Museum, 

 University of Copenhagen; V. E. Becker, Insti- 



tute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the 

 USSR, Moscow ; Robert H. Gibbs, Jr., U.S. Na- 

 tional Museum; Leslie W. Knapp, Smithsonian 

 Oceanographic Sorting Center; G. E. Maul, 

 Museu Municipal do Funchal, Madeira; Thomas 

 Clarke, University of Hawaii; E. H. Ahlstrom 

 and II. Geoffrey Moser, National Marine Fish- 

 eries Service; Richard H. Backus and James E. 

 Craddock, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu- 



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