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Family XCIII.—ZENID^. (81) 



267.— ZENOPSIS Gill. (237) 



827. Zenopsis ocellatua Storer. 15. (718) 



Family XCIV.— BERYCID^. (82) 

 268.- STEPHANOBERYX ' Gill. 



828. Stephanoberyx monae Gill. B. 



269.— CAULOLEPIS^ Gill. 



829. Caulolepis longidens Gill. B. 



270.— PLECTROMUS^ Gill. 



830. Plectromus suborbitalis Gill. B. 



831. Plectromus crassiceps Bean. B. 



1 Stephanoberyx Gill. 



(Gill, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 258; type Stephanoberyx monw Gill. 



"Berycids with an elongated claviform contour, body covered with cycloid scales; 

 scarcely imbricated, and armed about the center with one or two erect spines ; an oblong 

 head, with a moderate convex snout and with thin osseous ridges, especially an inner 

 V-shaped one on the crown, whose limbs diverge on each side of nape, and an outer 

 sigmoid, one on each side, above the eyes, and continuous with one projecting from the 

 nasal ; the inner and outer ridges connected by a cross-bar on a line with the anterior 

 ma rgiu of the orbit ; rather small eyes, in the anterior half of the head, and the teeth 

 small, acute, and in a band on the premaxillaries and dentaries (palate toothless), 

 nud with veutrals having one spine and five rays. Closely allied to Mclamphcket." 

 Dcfpsca. (^recpavod, crown; /3?7pi^l, beryx.) 



Stephanoberyx monce Gill. Gulf stream, latitude 41°. (Gill. 1. c. 258.) 



^Caulolepis Gill. 

 (Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 258 ; type Caulolepis longidens Gill. ) 

 " Berycids with a laterally oval or broad pyriform contour; a compressed body, cov- 

 ered with small, pedunculated, leaf-like scales ; an abruptly declivous forehead ; small 

 eyes ; a pair of very long pointed teeth in front of upper jaw, closing in front of lower; 

 a similar pair of still longer teeth in the lower, received in fovea; of the palate; on 

 the sides of each jaw two long teeth, terminating in bulbous tips; a row of minute 

 tcitli on the posterior half of the maxillaries. Closely allied to Anoplogaster." Deep 

 sea. {K<xv\ni, stem; Ae7rz5, scale.) 



Caulolepis longidens Gill. Deep sea; latitude 39°. (Gill, 1. c. 2.'i8.) 



■J Plectromu.s Gill. 

 (Gill, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., 1883, 2.57; type riectromus suhorhitaliis Gill.) 

 " Berycids with an elongated form ; moderate cycloid scales; an oblong head with a 

 much decurved or truncate .snout ; rather small eyes, and teeth small, acute and in 

 two rows in each jaw, of which those of the minor row, at least in the lower jaw, are 

 largest, and palate toothless." Deep sea. (UXi'fKriXJOv, simr; oj/zo?, shoulder) ; "two 

 spines, one on each side of the nape, springing forward from the shoulder bones, give 

 a strange appearance to the fish.") 



Plectromus suborbitalis Gill. Gulf Stream, latitude 39°. (Gill, 1. c, 257.) 

 Plectromus crassiceps Bean. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 73. Gulf Stream. 



