Lampadena notialis 



Nafpaktitis and Paxton, 1968 



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Fig. 142— Lampadena notialis. holotype, 66.3 mm. From Nafpaktitis and Paxton (1968, 



p. 14, fig. 5). 



Description 



D. 14; A. 14; P. 14; AO 6 + 3; Pre 2 + 1; PO 5; VO 5 (6); gill rakers 7-8 + 1 + 16-17, total 

 24-26; lateral line scales 38-39; vertebrae 37-38 (two specimens). 



Eye large, 2.8 to 3.0 in head. Opercular margin produced into two rounded lobes separated 

 by triangular indentation about at level of PVO2. Pterotic spine directed posterolaterally in 

 young (66 mm) and posteroventrally in mature specimen (105 mm). 



Supracaudal luminous gland about 0.75 times the length of infraucaudal; infracaudal 

 gland length equal to (in small specimens) or greater than (in large specimens) diameter of 

 eye. Distance between end of anal base and anterior end of infracaudal gland about 0.25 of that 

 gland. 



Size: To 105 mm. 



Least depth of capture: To 60 mm at night (28-mm specimen) and to 715 m in daylight 

 (128-mm specimen). 



Distribution: Known from near New Zealand and Australia, and from Indian Ocean and 

 off the Cape region of South Africa between 40° and 50° S. 



Lampadena dea 



Fraser-Brunner, 1949 



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Fig. 143 — Lampadena dea, 59.0 mm. From Nafpaktitis and Paxton (1968, p. 17, fig. 6). 



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