PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol.85 Wwhington: 1938 No. 3032 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FISHES OBTAINED BY THE 

 UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES STEAMER 

 "ALBATROSS", CHIEFLY IN PHILIPPINE SEAS AND 

 ADJACENT WATERS 



By Henry W. Fowler 



While working in the United States National Museum with various 

 groups of fishes representing chiefly the Berycoiclei, Lophobranchii, 

 Scombroidei, Loricati, Craniomi, and Eleotridae obtained by the 

 Albatross, I ascertained a number of new genera and species. These 

 are described and the species figured in the present paper. 



The arrangement of the characters and their computation, formu- 

 las, and other data is the same as in previous reports on other sections 

 of the collection. In locality references, the letter "D" preceding a 

 number refers to the Albatross dredging station, and the numbers in 

 parentheses, as "(1567.)", refer to parchment tag numbers tied to the 

 specimens. 



Family CHLOROPHTHALMIDAE 



BATHYSAUROPS, new genus 



Type. — Bathysaurops 7nalayanus, new species. 



Body elongate, slender, with long tapering tail. Head large, de- 

 pressed. Snout short, broad. Eye very large, high, with broad deep 

 orbits, mostly in front half of head. Mouth large, inclined, lower 

 jaw well protruded. iSIaxillary long, inferior, reaches back well be- 

 low eye and terminally broadly expanded. Dentition of jaws ex- 

 posed in closed jaws; above an outer band narrowly of very small 

 teeth, then followed by 2 somewhat irregular rows of larger and 



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