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lower jaw projecting’, the snout much shorter than eye. Month ex- 
tremely wide, the cleft reaching much beyond eye. Premaxillaries 
with four long fang-like canines on each side. Mandible with pointed, 
wide-set teeth, the anterior ones excessively long; none of these large 
teeth received within the mouth. Maxillaries with fine teeth; palatine 
with a single series of small pointed teeth; no teeth on the tongue. 
Eye moderate. Pectorals moderate. Veutrals large. Dorsal fin high, 
placed anteriorly, well in front of the veutrals. Adipose fin moderate, 
sometimes fimbriate, opposite the low, short anal. Caudal moderate, 
forked. Gill-openings very wide. Xo gill-rakers. Brauchiostegals 
numerous. [yauXto'^ exserted; oduh-j tooth.) 
469. C. slosi'SH Blocli & Schneider. 
Greenish above; sides silvery; belly blackish. Dorsal not far behind 
head, its first ray produced in a long filament. Pectoral fins short. 
Ventral fins elongate, longer than head. About 30 phosphorescent dots 
in a series from the chin to the veutrals. Scales of the body subhexag- 
oual. Head nearly as deep as long, 7 in total length ; dejith about the 
same. B. 17; D. G; A. Hi; V. 7; Lat. 1. oG. L. 12 inches. {Giinther.) 
Mediterranean and deep waters of the Atlantic ; a specimen found in 
the stomach of a (;od on George’s Banks. 
(Bloch & Schneider, 430; Giinther, v, 392.) 
Family XLV.— STOMIATID^. 
{The Stomiatoids.) 
Body elongate, naked or covered with thin deciduous scales. Mouth 
very wide. Lateral margin of upper jaw formed by the maxillaries, 
which are provided with teeth along their edges. Teeth usually very 
strong, unequal, some of them often fang-like. Gill-membranes not 
joined, free from the isthmus. Brauchiostegals numerous. A long 
fleshy barbel suspended from the throat. No pseudobranchia?. Sides 
with phosphorescent spots. Dorsal fin short, median or posterior, with- 
out spines. Adipose fin present or absent. Pectorals and veutrals 
present. Opercular apparatus incomplete. Skeleton feebly ossified. 
Eggs excluded through oviducts. Deep-sea fishes of the Atlantic. 
Genera 1; species 8 or 10. 
{Stomiaiidw Giinther, v, 424.) 
No adipose fin; dorsal opposite anal. {Slomiatina;.) 
a. Body -with fine deciduous scales 
aa. Body naked. 
Stomias, 134. 
