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Figure 4— Upper— Dorsal view of bluntly rounded tip of upper beak ofaduhElassichthys adocetus, 59.0 mm SL. Lower— Dorsal view 

 of moderately pointed tip of upper beak of juvenile Cololabis saira, 58.0 mm SL. 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW TAXA 



Nanicbthys Hubbs and Wisner, new genus 



New genus, Hubbs and Wisner. — Collette 1966:4, 



6, 7, 20 (reduced counts; neotenic [this seems to be 



the only published reference to Nanichthys as a 



genus]). 



Genotype. Namchthyn simtilans, new species. 



Diagnosis. — A dwarfed scomberesocid ( maximum 

 known standard length 126 mm), agreeing with 



530 



Elassichthys in having a single median ovary, 

 when ripe largely filling the expanded coelom, and 

 the testis folded together into a single median 

 band. Gas bladder completely obsolete. Lateral 

 line developed only anteriorly. Premaxillary and 

 mandibular tooth rows closely approximated at 

 front. Upper jaw produced as an extremely slender 

 beak about half as long as in S. saurus and much 

 slenderer (in both lateral and dorsal aspects) than 

 the much stronger but still slender lower beak, 

 which is only about half as long as, and much less 

 attenuate than, that in adult S. saurus. The major 



