FIGURE 1.— Specimens of Kali indica , HUMZ 81941 (top) and Percisjaponicus.UUMZ 84945 (bottom) taken in the eastern Bering Sea. 



Bering Sea (Jordan and Gilbert 1899; Andriashev 

 1937; Schmidt 1950). Schultz (1967) quoted a letter 

 from Teodor Nalbant which mentions a capture in 

 the south-central Bering Sea, but without an exact 

 locality. The present specimens are the first cer- 

 tain records of the species from the eastern Bering 

 Sea and an addition to the fauna of North 

 America. 



Counts (HUMZ 84945 first): D. VI+ 7, VI+ 7; A. 

 8, 8; P. 12, 12; V. 1,2, 1,2; lateral line plates 30, 37; 

 vertebrae (excluding ural centrum) 40, — . Mea- 

 surements in millimeters (HUMZ 84945 first): 

 standard length 241, 215; predorsal 66.0, 60.3; 

 preanal 131.0, 122.6; preventral 61.2, 61.8; greatest 

 body depth 40.5, 35.9; least depth caudal peduncle 

 16.8, 17.5; pectoral fin length 56.0, 50.2; ventral fin 

 length 31.5, 29.2; first dorsal fin base 48.2, 39.8; 

 second dorsal fin base 33.1, 32.2; anal fin base 69.1, 

 40.3; head length 60.8, 55.4; snout length 15.4, 

 15.7; eye diameter 12.2, 8.9; interorbital width 

 16.2, 16.1; upper jaw length 15.3, 13.0. 



Laemonema longipes Schmidt 1938 



Two specimens, HUMZ 82892 and USNM 

 220877, were collected at station 251; a third 

 example, UW 20772, eastern Bering Sea, summer 

 1978, was also examined. This elongate morid is 

 locally abundant in the western North Pacific, 

 ranging from off Owase, Mie Prefecture (speci- 



mens in the collections of the University of Kyoto, 

 Maizuru), to the Okhotsk and Bering Seas. Large 

 trawl catches from Suruga Bay have been noted by 

 Matsubara (1955), and >1,000 individuals were 

 found in the stomach of a whale in the Kurile- 

 Kamchatka Trench (Rass 1954). Although 

 Fedorov (1973) listed the species fi-om the Bering 

 Sea, apparently no specimens or precise localities 

 documenting the record have been published. 

 These specimens are new additions to the fauna of 

 North America. 



Counts (HUMZ 82892 first, followed by USNM 

 220877 and UW 20772): D. 6+ 52, 6+ 52, 6+50; A. 

 49, 50, 50; P 17, 17, 18; V. 2, 2, 2; caudal rays 23, 25, 

 22; gill rakers 7+18, 8 + 21, 8+ 22; branchiostegal 

 rays 7, 7, — ; vertebrae (not including ural cen- 

 trum) 52, 53, 50. Measurements in millimeters: 

 standard length 178, 219, 205; predorsal 46.9, 57.1, 

 54.7; preanal 68.7, 78.1, 77.1; preventral 34.8, 40.1, 

 38.1; greatest body depth 39.9, 34.0, — ; pectoral fin 

 length 39.8, 46.2, 43.9; ventral fin length 71.0, 

 78.4, 64.5; head length 42.9, 49.6, 46.3; snout 13.0, 

 15.8, 14.2; eye diameter 7.4, 9.3, 8.6; width interor- 

 bital 9.4, 15.2, 12.8; length upper jaw 20.0, 23.3, 

 22.1. 



Macroptnna microstoma Chapman 1939 



Three specimens were taken: HUMZ 81966 (stn. 

 22), HUMZ 81975 (stn. 28), and USNM 220876 



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