Description 



D. 14(13-15);A. 21(20-22);P. 15-17; AO 16 (.15-17); gill rakers 8-9 + 1 + 19-20, total 29 

 (28-30); vertebrae 38 (37-39). 



Scale margins crenulate. Upper jaw short, barely extending beyond hind margin of orbit. 

 SAO series sharply angulate, the angle only slightly greater than 90°. SAO.i nearer lateral line 

 than to SAO2. Four (3-5) AO behind anal base. PO.^ slightly but distinctly elevated to level of 

 base of outer pelvic ray. 



Caudal luminous glands small, triangular, overlapping (Fig. 3), 2-3 supracaudally and 1-2 

 infracaudally. Andriashev (1962) reported that males had no infracaudal glands and that most 

 females also had one supracaudal gland. In both sexes the glands are evident at about 60-65 

 mm. 



Size: To about 110 mm. 



Least depth of capture: At surface at night. 



Distribution: Probably circumglobal above the Antarctic Convergence; apparently com- 

 mon in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. 



Electrona paucirastra 



Bolin (In: Becker, 1963) 



Fig. 18 — Electrona paucirastra, male. 59.5 mm. 



Fig. 19 — Electrona paucirastra, sex unknown, 44.3 mm. 



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