HUBBS and WISNER: REVISION OF THE SAURIES 



counts are much reduced: vertebrae 58-62, trans- 

 verse scale rows along midlateral line 70-88. pro- 

 current caudal rays 4 (rarely 3 or 5), pectoral rays 

 8- 11, rakers on first gill arch 19-25 (usually 22-24). 



Derivation of generic name. — From the Greek 

 pavocr (nanos), a dwarf, and iilidva (ichthys) a fish. 



Nankhthys simtilaui Hubbs and Wisner, 

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Derivation of species name, 

 simulans (imitating). 



-From the Latin, 



Holotype.SlO 63-546, an adult male 89.5 mm 

 SL, dipnetted at surface under a light in the south 

 central Atlantic Ocean at 24=02.5' S, 15=32.0 ' W, 

 on 9 June 1963; deposited in the Marine Verte- 

 brate Collection of the Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography. 



Paratypes. — All dipnetted in the southern Atlan- 

 tic Ocean at night under a light. Marine Verte- 

 brate Collection of the Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography; SIO 63-545, 8 (46-69 mm), 12 June 

 1963, 29 51.5' S, ir07' W; SIO 63-546, 17 (47-90 

 mm), 19 June 1963, 24°02.5' S, 15°32.0' W; SIO 

 63-548, 16 (20-76 mm), 20 June 1963. 23°42,0' S, 

 12=12.5' W; SIO 63-549, 6 (55-87 mm), 22 June 

 1963, 2r21.0' S, ir34.5' W; SIO 63-550, 7 (45-80 

 mm), 24 June 1963, 2010.5' S, 11 30.5' W; SIO 

 63-553, 4 (67-90 mm), 26 June 1963. 17"39.0' S, 

 12°22.0' W; SIO 63-555. 11 (38-66 mm), 28 June 

 1963, 15''48.0'S,16°50.0'W; SIO 63-571, 2 (38 and 

 44 mm), 22 July 1963, 11=35.0' S. 44=01.0' W. 



USNM 204257, 2 (68 and 101 mm), 15°45' S, 

 08''45' E; USNM 204258, 4 (42-66 mm), 32°57' N, 

 39°21' W. 



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We plan to transfer some of the Scripps para- 

 types listed above to USNM, MCZ, Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences ( ANSP), CAS, and 

 BMNH. 



We do not assign paratype designation to many 

 additional specimens, mostly very small, from the 

 mid-Atlantic, nor to the few examples seen from 

 the Indian Ocean, nor to two specimens, unusually 

 large for this dwarf species, from Funchal, Ma- 

 deira (these two are discussed on p. 541). 



Synonymy of Nankhthys iimiilaiis 





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Scomhresox scuteUatus (not Scomberesox sciitul- 



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