SC()1'EI.0IDS. 



937 



THE GREATER SCOPELUS. 



MYCTOPIIUM ELONGATUiM. 



Fig. 234. 



Base of the dorsal jiii loiu/er fluni that of the (uial u)ul more titan ', ., of the leiiqth of the body. Length of 

 the pectoral fins less than that of the ventral, than either the preahdominal length or the postahdominal , and than 

 half the length of the maxillaries, ichich is about half the distance between the dorsal fin and the tip of the snout 

 or a little greater. Longitudinal dinnieter of the eges less than half (< '/,,?) of the postorbital length of the 

 head, which is more than ^\, of the entire length thereof. Least depth of the tail more than 8 % of the length 

 of the body or than ^i^ of the greatest depth of the latter. Scales of the lateral line slightly, if at all, larger 



than those of the Itody in general. 



^^... 



/ 



I 



^^^„«*-rrr^?'^> 



*^'EA;tej;Sulii— -^.^ 



Fig. 234. Mi/ctophuin elongntum. together with the under side df its lower jaw. Natural size. From Trondlijeni Fjord. Specimen in the 



possession of the Zoological Museum of Christiania University, o. b. f, three scales from the left side of the body, X 10. a, from the 



row next below the lateral line; b, from the lateral line; e, from the row along the base of (he dorsal fin. 



R.br.8;D.— ; A 

 19"' 



L. lat. 43'. L. tr. 



-;C. J! + 2 +(1.5— 17) + 2+,; 



1. 



Syn. Scopelns elongatus, Costa, Fna Regn. Nap., Peso., Malacott., 

 Scop., tab. XXXV; Steind., Stzgber. Akad. Wiss. Wien., 

 Math. Nalurw. CI.. Bd. LXXXIII, i (1881), p. 397; Storm, 

 Vid. Selsk. Skr. Trondh. 1883, p. 30; Coll. (Myctophim), 

 N. Mag. Naturv. Clirnia, Bd 29. p. 104; Lillj. (Scopclus), 

 So., Norg. Fna, FM., vol. Ill, p. 25. 

 Lampani/ctim (ex Bonap.) resplendens, Richards., Voy. Ereb., 

 Terr., Ichtlnjol.. p. 42, tab. XXVII, figg. 16—18; Gthr 



(Scopelus), Cat. Brit. Miia., Fish., vol. V, p. 415; Coll., 

 Forh. Vid. Selsk. Chrnia 1880, No. 8, p. .3 cum. tab.; Stokm, 

 1. c. 1879, p. 130; 1880, p. 78. 



(?) Scopelus caudispinosus, Johns., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1863, 



p. 42; Gthr, 1. c, p. 416; — Adn. tamen (sec. John- 



^14 . . , . 



sontum) oculos minores (long. diam. long, capitis), pinn. 



dors, longiorem (longit. basis = ',q distantia? ex apice rostri; 



77-7 

 long, capitis = longit. basis illius; longit. bas. pinna; 



analis ^ -,'3 longit. bas. pinn. dors.; longit. postabdominalis 

 = '/o longit. bas. pinn. dorsalis). 



1 8, according to Collktt. 



17, 



38(39) — 50, according to Collett. 



