PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



issued 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 86 Washington: 1939 



No. 3062 



ELEVEN NEW SPECIES AND THREE NEW GENERA OF 

 OCEANIC FISHES COLLECTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL 

 FISHERIES COMMISSION FROM THE NORTHEASTERN 

 PACIFIC 



By WiLBERT McLeod Chapman 



During the past 10 years the International Fisheries Commission 

 has conducted extensive macroplankton work in the northeastern 

 Pacific Ocean in their investigation of the early hfe history of the hali- 

 but. Incidental to the taking of eggs and young stages of hahbut a 

 wealth of other ichthyological material has been amassed, consisting 

 of eggs, young stages, and adult specimens of a great many species 

 of fishes. The present report is a study of the pelagic and bathy- 

 pelagic fishes in the collection that are new to science. 



I am indebted to Dr. W. F. Thompson, director of investigations. 

 International Fisheries Commission, and director of the School of 

 Fisheries, University of Washington, for permission to work on these 

 fishes. Dr. L. P. Schultz, of the United States National Museum, 

 gave much helpful advice. The work was done in the laboratories 

 of the International Fisheries Commission and the School of Fisheries, 

 University of Washington, while I was a student at the latter institu- 

 tion. Appreciation is expressed for the use of facihties of the two 

 institutions. Tables giving the individual measurements and counts 

 for each specimen reported upon are to be found in doctorate thesis 

 no. 317884 in the University of Washington Library, Seattle, Wash. 

 The holo types and some of the paratypes of the new species are 

 deposited in the United States National Museum. The other speci- 

 mens are in the collection of the International Fisheries Commission, 

 Seattle. 



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