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DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN 



distribution of the most important forms taken in the abyssal 

 plain and the bordering intermediate zone. The localities of 

 special importance are the Southern Ocean for Halosauropsis 

 macrochir, and the Pacific for Macrurus armalus. 



Besides these we caught at Station 48 an Alepocephalus and 

 the new form Bathymic7'ops regis (see Fig. 305), which may both 

 be pelagic. 



Excepting the Hai'iotta, which has only been taken at some- 

 what lesser depths (Station 35, 2603 metres), all these species 



Fig. 305. 

 Bat hyfiticrops regis, n.g. , n.sp. Nat. size, ii cm. 



belong to the genera recorded by previous expeditions from 

 the abyssal plain. Of the nine species, three \Halosa2iropsis 

 mac7^ockir, Macrurus armatus, and Synaphobranchtis pinnatus) 

 have previously been taken in other oceans. Of special interest 

 is the fact that M. armatus has been found in so many new 



