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Range: Although I have not seen any specimens from the Indian 

 Ocean, this species probably replaces hemigymnus in the Central and 

 Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It occurs as far north as lat. 

 40°35' N. and as deep as 565 fathoms in the Northwestern Pacific. 

 Alcock (1896) had specimens from the Bay of Bengal from a depth of 

 1803 fathoms. 



Ar gyropelecus atnabilis (Ogilby) 



Figure 8 



Ster noptychides amabilis Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 3, 

 p. 1313, 1888 (type locality, Lord Howe Island). — Goode and Bean, Oceanic 

 ichthyology . . . U.S. Nat. Mus. Spec. Bull. No. 2, pp. 127, 128, 1895. 



Argyropelecus amabilis McCulloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 14, No. 2, p. 118, 

 pi. 14, fig. 3, 1923 (Lord Howe Island). — Parr, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll, 

 vol. 3, art. 3, p. 49, fig. 21, 1937. 



Argyropelecus amabilis, Schultz, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 150, 1938 (West- 

 ern North Atlantic). Longley and Hildebrand, Pap. Tortugas Lab. Carnegie 

 Inst. Washington, No. 535, p. 16, 1941 (Florida). 



Argyropelecus micracanthus Parr, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 3, art. 7, 

 p. 52, figs. 18, 21, 1937 (type locality, lat. 23°49' N., long. 76°58' W., depth 

 7,000 feet of wire out; holotype BOC 3768 examined by me). 



Argyropelecus antrorsospinus Schultz, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 91, No. 27, 

 pp. 1-5, fig. 1, 1937 (type locality, Western North Atlantic). 



Argyropelecus olfersi, Goode and Bean (in part), Oceanic ichthyology . . . , U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. Spec. Bull. No. 2, p. 126, pi. 39, fig. 148a, 1895 (USNM 33296; 

 33393; 35561; 43855; 102987).— Jordan and Evermann, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 47, pt. 1, p. 604, pt. 4, fig. 261, 1896. — Roule and Angel, Resultats des cam- 

 pagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I, Monaco, fasc. 86, p. 48, 

 (?p.80), pi. 2, figs. 24, 24a, 1933 (Azores, Gulf of Gasconge).— Vladykov 

 and McKenzie, Proc. Nova Scotian Inst. Sci., vol. 19, pt. 1, p. 60, fig., 1935 

 (on Goode and Bean). 



Study material: USNM 102989 (holotype of A. antrorsospinus), 

 off Calebra Island, lat. 18°32'54" N., long. 65°23'42" W., to lat, 

 18 32'15" N., long. 65°18'45" W., February 26, 1933, depth 250 to 

 320 fathoms, standard length 33 mm. USNM 102987 (paratype of A. 

 antrorsospinus), Albatross station 2208, lat. 39°33' N., long. 71°16'15" 

 W., August 21, 1884, 1 specimen, 34.5 mm. USNM 35561 (paratype 

 of A. antrorsospinus), Albatross station 2209, lat. 39°34 / 45" N.,long. 

 71°21'30" W., August 21, 1884, 1 specimen, 33 mm. USNM 33393 

 (paratype of A. antrorsospinus), Albatross station 2075, lat. 41°40'30" 

 N., long. 66°35'00" W., September 3, 1883, 1 specimen, 34 mm. 

 USNM 43855 (paratype of A. antrorsospinus), Albatross station 2717, 

 lat. 38°24' N., long. 71°13' W., September 18, 1886, 1 specimen in 

 bad condition. USNM 33296, Albatross, lat. 39° N., long. 68° W., 

 1 specimen, 54 mm. MCZ 35815, Atlantis station 3457, lat. 23°23' 

 N., long. 80°36' W., May 3, 1938, 550 fathoms, 1 specimen, 37 mm. 

 WHOI, Blue Dolphin haul No. RHB 481, August 25, 1953, lat. 39°44' 



