DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



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spaces; * seven branchiostegals ; a first dorsal with about live weak spiues, tin; second and 

 anal oblong, and normal thoracic ventrals (i, 5). (Gill, MS.) 



This family is represented by a single species and a single genus— ■inomalnpn palpc- 

 hratiis (Boddaert), Giiuther, known only from eight specimens, four iiom Amboina and 

 Manado, (me from the Fiji Islands, one from the Paumoto Archipelago, and two others 

 from the ISTew Hebrides, the types of Ogilby's recent valuable paper, -'Redescription of 

 Anoniah)ps palpebratus." (Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney, i, 1890, 69-71.) 



This form Avas placed by Giinther in the fomily Carangidw, but this assignment was 

 professedly provisional, since he had never been able to examine the specimens. The origi- 

 nal assignment by Bleeker and Kuer to the Beri/cidw was more nearly exact, but, as Dr. 

 Gill has shown, it seems to possess positive and distinctive family characters of its own. 



ANOMALOPS, Kner. 



Anomalops, Kmer, Sitzungsbericlite Akad. Wiss. Wien., LViii, 1868, p. 294, pi. L, Fig. 1. 



Body oblong, covered with small rough scales. Snout very short and convex; mouth 

 very wide. Eyes very large; a glandular, elongate, and partly free, luminous organ occu- 



Anomalops talpebbatds. 



pies a hollow of the infraorbital ring below the eyes. Villiform teeth in the jaws and on the 

 palatine bones; vomer toothless. First dorsal short; second and anal moderately long; 

 caudal forked. {Giinther.) 



According to Giinther, Anomalops palpebratus lives in great depths, and comes to the 

 surface at night or by accident only. "The peculiar organ below the eyes," he wi-ites, "is 

 without doubt of the same nature iuid has tlie same function as similar structures on the 

 side of the head of other deep-sea fishes; as in Pavhystomias, it is partly free, as if it could 

 be made to protrude out of the pit in which it lies." 



Family CARANGID^E. 



Carangini, Bonaparte, Catalogo Metoilico. Pesci Europei, 1876, 75. 



Carangoidei, Bleekkr, Tentamen, 1859, xxiii, (F;imili:i 100;.— Ginther, Cat. Fish. Brit Mus. ii, 1860, 417. 

 Carangidw, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 430; Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872, 8 (No. 79); Pror. V. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, p. 487, 1883. 



This family is so little bathybial in its range that it may be passed over witli a brief 

 allusion. The family includes perhaps two hundred species, many of whicli are semipe- 

 lagic in habit but which, so far as is at i)resent known, live near thti shores and in the upi)er 

 water. There is no evidence that any of them breed far from the coasts, except it may by 

 Naucrates. Most of them are probably restricted in range, so ftir as individual migrations 



• "Nostril large, not separate from the eye by au osseous iuterspaco." Ogilby, Uc. at., p. 71. 



