PIETSCH and VAN DUZER: SYSTEMATICS AND DISTRIBUTION OF ANGLERFISHES 



4B. Number of lower jaw teeth 37-57 (Figure 22); escal bulb width 3.8-5.0% SL (Figure 23); 

 illicium length 29.8-38.8% SL (Figure 24); escal bulb with a low, rounded distal prolon- 

 gation usually darkly pigmented on tip (Figure 27) Melanocetus niger Regan 1925 



10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 120 



Standard Length in mm 



Figure 19. — Relationship between least outside width of frontals and standard length for two species oi Melanocetus. 



Melanocetus johnsoni Giinther 1864 

 Figures 1, 3, 6, 16B, 17, 19-21, 25, 30, 31 



Females 



Melanocetus johnsoni Giinther 1864:301-303, pi. 

 25 (original description, single specimen, 

 holotype BMNH 1864.7.18.6, 64 mm, Madeira, 

 24 December 1863); Liitken 1871:64, 74 (com- 

 parison with Oneirodes eschrichtii); Liitken 

 1872:329-340, 343 (after Liitken 1871); Giinther 

 1880:473, fig. 211 (after Giinther 1864); 

 Giinther 1887:56-57 (after Giinther 1864, com- 

 parison with M. murrayi); Vaillant 1888:346 

 (after Giinther 1864); Goode and Bean 1896:494, 

 fig. 406 (description after Gunther 1864); Gill 

 1909:582, 584, 585, fig. 20 (after Gunther 1864, 

 Goode and Bean 1896); Regan 1912:286, fig. 60 

 (cranial osteology); Regan 1913:1096 (descrip- 

 tion of additional specimen, natural history); 

 Regan 1926:18, 32, 33, fig. 10 (description of 

 additional material, cranial osteology; M. 

 krechi and M. rotundatus synonyms); Parr 

 1927:29 (description of additional specimen); 

 Norman 1930:354 (additional record); Regan 

 and Trewavas 1932:27-29, 49-52, fig. 19-21, 

 22A, B, 72, 73 (description of additional mate- 

 rial, osteology, and esca figured, in key); Fowler 



1936:1143, 1144, 1346, 1363 (description after 

 Giinther 1864, Regan 1926, Norman 1930); 

 Norman 1939:114 (additional material); Koe- 

 foed 1944:3-5, pi. 1, fig. 1 (description of addi- 

 tional specimen, comparison with M. murrayi; 

 Beebe and Crane 1947:152 (description of addi- 

 tional specimen, color); Fowler 1949:158-159 

 (listed); Bertelsen 1951:7, 40-41, 43-46, 48-53, 

 fig. 13, 15, 17-19, tables 4, 6 (description of 

 females, males, larvae, comparison with all 

 known material, in key); Grey 1956:235-236 

 (synonymy; distribution); Monod 1960:687, fig. 

 80 (pectoral radials); Maul 1961:91-92, fig. 1 (de- 

 scription of additional material); Maul 

 1962a:6-7 (description, additional material); 

 Struhsaker 1962:841-842 (description, addi- 

 tional specimen, skin spines); Bussing 1965:222 

 (additional specimen); Fitch and Lavenberg 

 1968:127, fig. 70 (distinguishing characters, 

 natural history); Pietsch 1972a:29, 35, 36, 38, 45 

 (osteological comments); Maul 1973:667 

 (synonymy, after Bertelsen 1951). 

 Melanocetus krechi Brauer 1902:293-294 (original 

 description, single specimen, holotype ZMHU 

 17688, 45 mm, Valdivia stn. 239, Indian Ocean, 

 5°42' S, 43°36' E, 0-2,500 m); Brauer 1906:319- 

 320, pi. 15, fig. 1, 2 (description after Brauer 

 1902); Gill 1909:583, 584, fig. 21 (after Brauer 



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