Jordan and Evermann.— Fishes of North America. 



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tral is equal to length of head. Color yellowish brown The type of this 

 species a specimen 88 mm. long, was taken by the Bla)<e from Station 

 XCIV off Moro Castle, Cuba, at a depth of from 250 to 400 fathoms. A 

 collateral type spe<.imen (No. 29057) was obtained by the J'i./^ ^a_,rA: from 

 Station 1043 in Lat. 'i%^' 39' N., Long. 73° 11' W., at a depth of 130 fathoms. 

 fGoode & Bean.) West Indies, to lat. 39° N., m Gnlf stream. (_rohnsin., 



stout.) 



mo^,mu. rolustus, GOODE .^ BEAN, Bun. Mns. Cotnp. Zool X No 5 161 1883, off More 



Castle Cuba, in from 250 to 400 fathoms. (Type m M. C. Z. CoM. Blale) 

 Benthocomete» robustu», Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 327, fig. 288, 1896. 



965. BASSOGIGAS, Gill.' 

 Bassogioa., Gn.L MS. in Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 328, 1896 (^iH«:). 



Brotulids having the body elongate, compressed, covered with a thick, 

 heavy skin, which upon the head covers and obscures all the angles of th. 

 skull : scales small, covering body and head completely ; lateral line indis- 

 tinct for the greater part of the course, but apparently extending at leas\, 

 * of the way from the operculum to the tail; eye moderate; vertical fin. 

 completely united: ventrals a pair of bifid filaments inserted behind th. 

 humeral symphysis and remote at their bases, short, rather stout; snout 

 without barbels, slightly produced, the lower jaw being barely included., 

 villiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and palatines; vomerine patch 

 V-shaped, but with its arms broadly expanded and thicker at the angle, 

 so that it is almost triangular; operculum with a long, sharp Bpme; 

 preoperculum unanned; branchiostegals 8; air bladder present; pseudo. 

 branchiae small. Deep sea. (/idcJcJcK, for ^arjt;^, deep; r^r^?, giant.) 



, „- GiLUi, 2887. 



a. Dorsal fin with 83 rays; anal 67 sxelufeeoides, 288S. 



aa. Dorsal fin with 95 rays ; anal 82. 



2887. BASSOGIGAS GILLII, Goode & Bean. 

 D 83- C 6- A 07 Head rather short and broad, with snout slightlj 

 overlapping the lower jaw ; diameter of the eye scarcely i of the lengtL 

 of the snout and about -h that of head; maxillary extending far behinc. 

 eye the vertical from the anterior margin of orbit nearly bisecting it, itf 

 leno-th i that of head, and its posterior margin ending in a broad triaiigu. 

 lar dilation; teeth normal; anterior and posterior nostrils separated by u 

 space greater than diameter of eye; preoperculum with a square, roundeo 

 angle; no armature; operculum with a strong, sharp spine above, the Uy 

 of which projects slightly beyond the opercular flap ; distauco of vent from 

 root of pectoral slightly more than length of head, as far removed froir. 

 this point as is the anterior nostril; scales moderate, covering the eiituv 

 head; lateral line somewhat conspicuous, obsolete iu ita posterior third. 

 Dorsal and anal fins enveloped in thick scaly ?kin; origin of dorsal 11. 

 advance of middle of pectoral; pectorals rounded, broad, and very short; 

 less than i as long as head and extending about i distance from origiv. 

 to vertical from vent; ventrals inserted somewhat behind angle oi pre^ 

 operculum, extending to vertical from axil oi" pectoral and abou.i 

 of distance from origin to vent; each Yent/al filament bifid, the lui.fi 



