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lateral cleft; maxillary reaching beneath pupil. Teeth simple, stout, 

 wedge-shaped, in a single series in both jaws, forming a sharp cutting 

 edge, more widely spaced and weaker at the symphysis; apparently 

 fewer teeth in the upper jaw; pulp cavity small. Snout deep, abrupt, 

 little if at all projecting. Nostril with a raised rim. Eye large, black, 

 pupil round. Gill slit above the base of the pectoral. One suprabran- 

 chial pore present; upper pores on the snout nearly between the 

 nostrils. No prickles. Pyloric coeca 3.2 in the head, on the left side. 

 Origin of dorsal slightly behind the middle of the pectoral; the 

 anterior rays buried in tissue, depressed. Caudal of 6 rays, connected 

 for one-half its length to the anal: the dorsal and anal connections 

 gradual. Pectoral notched ; the two lobes connected by rudimentary 

 widely spaced rays ; the lower lobe of three or four rays ; the lower ray 

 one-half the second, elongate; the lower lobe reaching past the vent, 

 1 .6 in the head. Vent under the base of the pectoral. 



Figure 99.— Parauparis copei. Teeth from specimen No. 46009, U.S.NiM. 



Body milky white anteriorly, light brown posteriorly; snout and 

 chin blackish; gill cavity, a strip back of the vent, and the peritoneum 

 black; stomach pale. 



PARAUPARIS ROSACEUS Gilbert 



Paraliparis rosaceus Gilbert, 1890, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 13, p. 93. — Garman 

 1892, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 14, No. 2, p. 80. — Jordan and Ever- 

 MANN, 1898, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, p. 2142. 



Type.— 'No. 48918, U.S.N.M.; Albatross Station 2919, off southern 

 California; depth 984 fathoms. Length 135 + mm. 



Distribution. — Known only from the type locality. Type examined. 



Relationships. — See description of P. copei; differing from P. 

 attenuatus and P. grandiceps in the lighter coloration. 



Description of type. — Pectoral 20 ; caudal 4 ; pyloric coeca 5. Depth 

 5.7; heads. Eye 4.8; gill slit 6.5. 



Body comparatively deep, compressed, moderately elongate, not 

 attenuate, tapering gradually. Head not heavy or deep ; occiput not 

 swollen; cheeks vertical. Mouth horizontal, small, with little lateral 

 cleft; maxillary reaching beneath the pupil. Teeth short, stout, 

 appearing more bluntly rounded than in P. copei, those in the lower 

 jaw in one row, forming a single cutting edge, teeth in upper jaw nearly 



