Fig. 116. At 1500 and again at 2500 feet this wholly unknown fish appeared suddenly in 

 the beam of light. It was the color of dead or of water-soaked flesh, toothless and lightless, 

 with good eyes and long pectorals, high vertical fins and a very small tail. I have called it 

 the Pallid Sailfin, Bathyembryx istiophasma. 



(From a painting by Else Bostelmann. Courtesy of National Geographic Magazine) 



