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Genus PARATRACHICHTHYS Waite 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ AuLOTKACHicHTHYS, iiew subgeniis. Subcutaneous silvery-gray 

 striated tubes and areas along lower surface of body. 



&\ Depth 27^7 to 2% ; gill rakers 6-+- 10 latus. 



^*^ Depth 2% ; gill rakers 6+15 prosthemius, 



a*. Pabatrachichthys. No subcutaneous tubes or areas along 



lower surface of body; depth 2%; gill rakers 9+18 traillii. 



AULOTRACHICHTHYS, new subgenus 



Type. — Paratrachiehthys latus, new species. 



Differs from subgenus Paratrachiehthys in the presence of the 

 subcutaneous silvery-gray striated tubes and areas along lower sur- 

 face of body. Includes Paratrachiehthys latus and P. prosthemius. 



(avXos, tuhe-\- Trachichthys.) 



H.W.F.deL 



Figure 12. — Paratrachiehthys latus, new species. Type. 



PARATRACHICHTHYS LATUS, new species 



Figure 12 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 33/5, width 2 to 21/6. Snout 42/3 

 to 4% ill head from snout tip; eye 3I/2 to 3%, greater than snout 

 or interorbital ; maxillary greatly inclined, reaches slightly beyond 

 hind eye edge, expansion ll^ to ly^ in eye, length 1% in head from 

 snout tip; bands of villiform teeth in jaws and on palatines, none on 

 vomer; interorbital 3% to 41/0 in head from snout tip, low, broadly 

 convex. Gill rakers 6+10, lanceolate, twice gill filaments or I14 

 in eye. 



