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a total length of 93 mm, so if the standard length was used by Mori 

 it would be about 81 mm on his specunen. Thus the depth would be 

 7 mm, which is 9 percent of the standard length. The depth of the 

 body in specimens from both oceans varies from 12.1 to 21.6 percent 



Table 3.— Measurements made on Mallotus from the North Pacific and North 



Atlantic Oceans * 



Character 



Length of head. 



Width of head. 



Length of maxillaries (tip of snout to posterior tip of maxillary). 

 Width of fleshy interorbital space 



Diameter of eye. 



Greatest depth of body- 



Length of snout. 



Length of longest gill raker on first arch. 



Length of depressed dorsal fin 



Length of longest caudal fin ray 



Length of longest dorsal fin ray.. 



Length of longest pectoral fin ray 



Length of longest pelvic fin ray. 

 Length of longest anal fin ray: 

 Males 



Females. 



Length from snout to insertion of anal fin — 



Length from snout to origin of adipose fin 



Length from snout to origin of dorsal fin 



Length from snout to insertion of pectoral fin 



Length from snout to insertion of pelvic fin 



Least depth of caudal peduncle - 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Length from insertion of pectoral fin to pelvic fin. 



M. villosus 



Newfound- 

 land' 



|21. 

 \22. 



3-24.8 (36) 

 71±0.52 

 8.0-10.8 (32) 

 9.33±0.40 

 9.6-11.6 (36) 

 10.69±0.30 

 f 4.9-6.5 (35) 

 \ 5.80±0.24 

 I 4.6-6.5 (32) 

 \ 5.38±0.24 

 1 13.6-21. 6 (36) 

 \17.88±1.90 

 ( 7.0-8.6 (21) 

 1 7.76±0.25 

 ( 3.1-4.3 (36) 

 \ 3.65±0.18 

 |l6.5-20.5 (32) 

 \18.64±0.16 

 jl3.5-17.5 (36) 

 \l5.3±0.59 

 110.3-13.9(36) 

 \l2.19=b0.56 

 |l0.5-15.5 (36) 

 \l2.64db0.88 

 fl 1.5-16.0 (36) 

 \13.80±0.S8 



M. catervarius 



Alaska and 

 British Colum- 

 bia 



{I 



{ 

 { 



f20.0- 



121.28 



fso.o 



\53.9 



I 4.9-7.3 (; 

 \ 6.22±0.4 

 ( 8.9-12.1 

 \l0.38±0.£ 



6-9.2 (19) 

 33±0.29 

 5.2-7.9 (16) 

 6.16±0.41 

 67.0-76.5 (36) 

 72,50±1.11 

 78.5-83.5 (36) 

 81.17±0,84 

 50.6-57.6 (36) 

 54.00±1.41 

 1-25.5 (36) 

 28±0.64 

 .0-57.5 (36) 

 95±1.35 

 (36) 

 43 

 (36) 

 55 

 30.2-36.0 (36) 

 32.52±0.84 



23.6-26.3 (52) 

 24.94±0.44 

 8.4-9.8 (53) 

 9.07±0.23 

 10.8-12.5 (53) 

 11.72±0.29 

 4.9-6.3 (53) 

 5.55±0.22 

 6.8-7.1 (53) 

 6.49±0.18 

 12.1-15.0 (53> 

 13.47±0.60 

 7.3-8.9 (53) 

 8.17±0.22 

 3.2-4.4 (53) 

 3.76±0.19 

 15.5-18.5 (53) 

 17.09±0.51 

 14.0-18.0 (53) 

 16.10±0.57 

 11.1-14.8 (53) 

 12.99±0.57 

 11.0-16.5 (53) 

 13.94±0.81 

 12.0-16.0 (53) 

 14.43±0.67 



7.5-9.5 (46) 

 8.43±0.29 

 5.6-6.3 (7) 

 5.95±0.17 

 71.0-76.0 (52) 

 73.20±0.74 

 79.0-83.5 (53) 

 80.78±0.57 

 52.9-58.2 (63) 

 55.28±0.74 

 23.0-26.5 (53) 

 24.S0±0.51 

 52.0-56.5 (53) 

 54.14±0.67 

 5.4-6.9 (52) 

 6.05±0.24 

 8.3-11.7 (53) 

 10.25±0.52 

 28.4-32.9 (52) 

 30.55±0.65 



1 See footnote 1 to table 2. 



« See footnote 2 to talile 2. 



