(stn. 225). This bizarre, tube-eyed opisthoproctid 

 fish is a characteristic member of the mesopelagic 

 fauna in the temperate eastern North Pacific, 

 where it has been caught between the Gulf of 

 Alaska and northern Baja California (Berry and 

 Perkins 1966; Quast and Hall 1972). It also has 

 been taken in the southeastern Pacific west of the 

 Juan Fernandez Islands (Craddock and Mead 

 1970). Although no localities have been presented, 

 western Pacific captures are mentioned from the 

 Kurile-Kamchatka Trench (as Macropinnidae; 

 Rass 1955) and listed from the northwestern 

 Pacific (Parin 1961). Fedorov (1973) listed the 

 species from the Bering Sea without documenta- 

 tion. The three specimens reported upon here are 

 the first verified records of the species from the 

 Bering Sea. 



Counts and measurements of HUMZ 81966 

 (eyes, distal portion of ventral fin, and skin lost), 

 HUMZ 81975 (eyes, dorsal fin, and skin lost), 

 USNM 220876 (eyes lost). Counts: D. 11, — 12; A. 

 14, 14, 14; P 17, 17, 17; V. 10, 10, 10; branchiostegals 

 3, 3, 3. Measurements in millimeters: standard 

 length 96.4, 112.8, 56.7; predorsal 68.6, — , 42.7; 

 preanal 76.7, 82.5, 41.9; preventral 53.3, 61.7, 33.1; 

 vent to anal origin 22.1, 18.0, 6.1; greatest body 

 depth 36.6, 36.8, 20.3; least depth caudal peduncle 

 13.2, 14.3, 7.3; pectoral fin length 21.6, 17.8, 16.5; 

 ventral fin length — , 48.9, 28.0; dorsal fin base 

 15.8, — , 8.8; anal fin base 14.3, 18.4, 9.6; head 

 length 38.0, 47.8, 26.6. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank Alex E. Peden, British Columbia Pro- 

 vincial Museum, and Doyne Kessler, Northwest 

 and Alaska Fisheries Center Kodiak Laboratory, 

 NMFS, for the loan of specimens. Kunio Amaoka 

 and Tsutomu Kanayama, Hokkaido University, 

 gave useful advice. 



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MAMORU YABE 



Laboratory of Marine Zoology 

 Faculty of Fisheries 

 Hokkaido University 

 Hakodate 041, Japan 



Systematics Laboratory 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 

 National Museum of Natural History 

 Washington, DC 20560 



DANIEL M. COHEN 



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