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The farthest north locality in the Atlantic is lat. 48°10 / N. (MCZ 

 34950) ; and it has been taken at a depth of 855 fathoms. 



Argyropelecus olfersi (Cuvier) 



Figure 10 



Sternoptyx olfersii Cuvier, Le regne animal . . . , ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 316, 1829 

 (type locality, Atlantic Ocean). — Ruben and Koren, Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 

 Stockholm 1844, p. 80, pi. 3, fig. 6, 1846 (Helgoland). 



Argyropelecus hemigymnus, Borodin, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, No. 3, p. 

 68, 1931 (MCZ 31634). 



Argyropelecus olfersi Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 

 vol. 22, p. 408, 1849 (off Cape of Good Hope, Western Atlantic) .—Lowe, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 18, p. 247, 1850 (Madeira). — Giinther, Catalog 

 of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 5, p. 386, 1864 (Atlantic). — Collett, 

 Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiana, No. 1, p. 84, 1880 (off Norway).— Collett, Nyt 

 Mag. Naturv., vol. 29, p. 102, 1884 (off Norway).— Jordan, Report U.S. 

 Comm. Fish and Fisheries 1885, vol. 13, p. 833, 1887 (name only). — Giin- 

 ther, Report of the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 

 during 1873-76, vol. 22, p. 167, 1887 (off Cape Finisterre) .— Vaillant, Ex- 

 peditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les annees 

 1880-1883, Poissons, p. 104, 1888 (off Portugal).— Lilljeborg, Sveriges och 

 Norges fiskar, Upsala, vol. 3, p. 3, 1891 (off Norway). — Liitken, Spolia At- 

 lantica, p. 283, 1892 (North Atlantic). — Vinciguerra, Atti Soc. Italiana Sci. 

 Nat. Milano, 1893, vol. 34, p. 331, 1893 (Canary Islands).— Smitt, A history 

 of Scandinavian fishes, Stockholm, pt. 2, p. 925, fig. 233, 1895 (Atlantic, 

 also 2nd edition). — Collett, Resultats des campagnes scientifiques accom- 

 plies par le Prince Albert I, Monaco, fasc. 10, p. 127, pt. 3, fig. 14, 1896 (off 

 Azores). — Jordan and Evermann, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, pt. 1, p. 604, pt. 

 4, fig. 261A, 1896.— Collett, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania, No. 9, p. 105, 1903 

 (off Norwegian coasts). — Brauer, Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deut- 

 schen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia, 1898-1989 . . . , 

 vol. 15, pt. 1, p. 108, fig. 46, 1906 (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans). — 

 Zugmayer, Resultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince 

 Albert I, Monaco, fasc. 35, p. 52, 1911 (Atlantic). — Murry and Hjort, The 

 depths of the ocean . . . , p. 612, 1912 (Atlantic). — Halkett, Checklist of 

 the fishes of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, Ottawa, p. 56, 

 1913 (off Canada in Atlantic). — Holt and Byrne, Fish. Ireland Sci. Invest. 

 1912, No. 1, p. 20. fig. 7a, 1913 (off Ireland).— Weber, Die Fische der Siboga 

 Expedition, Leiden, vol. 57, p. 21, 1913 (Banda Sea, 2,798 meters). — Weber 

 and Beaufort, The fishes of the Indo- Australian archipelago, vol. 2, p. 134, 

 fig. 49, 1913 (Banda Sea).— Hoek, Conseil Perm. Intern. Expl. Mer. Pub. 

 Circonst., No. 12, p. 53, 1914 (North Sea). — Jespersen, Report on the Danish 

 oceanographical expeditions to the Mediterranean, 1908-1910, vol. 2, No. 3, 

 pt. 2 A, p. 23, 1915 (Atlantic). — Thompson, Mar. Biol. Rep. South Africa, 

 No. 3, p. 72, 1916 (Cape Province). — Roule, Bull. Inst. Oceanogr. Monaco, 

 No. 348, p. 4, 1918 (stomach contents tuna). — Roule, Resultats des cam- 

 pagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I, Monaco, fasc. 52, p. 

 25, 1919 (Atlantic). — Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 

 153, 1925 (off Cape Point, South Africa, depth 460 fathoms).— Beebe, Zo- 

 ologica, New York vol. 12, No. 1, p. 14, 1929 (Hudson Gorge, 1,000 fath- 

 oms). — Kyle and Ehrenbaum in Dunker, et al., Die Fische der Nord- und 



