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All teeth bicuspid. A  crescentic suborbital and a smaller 
postorbital luminous organ, revolving and covered by trans- 
lucent skin, besides an orbital one, covered by the skin. On 
each side of the body a ventral and a lateral series of organs, 
partly covered by the skin, besides smaller organs scattered 
over head and body. 4 gills. No gillrakers. Branchiostegals 8. 
1. Malacosteus indicus Gthr. 
Matlacosteus indicus Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 1878, p. 181. — Challenger 
Rep. Deep-Sea Fishes, 1887, p. 214. 
Malacosteus spec. Alcock, Descript. Catal. Indian Deep Sea Fishes, 1899, p. 149. 
Malacosteus indicus Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 65. 
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Fig. 43. Madacosteus indicus Gthr. (after Brauer). 
D. 16—18; A. 18—20; P. 2—3; V. 6. 
Height almost 5%/,, head 3*/,—4. Eye oval, about 4. Snout 
less than '/,; of eye. Origin of ventrals about an eye length 
behind middle of body. Anal and dorsal in the last '/, of 
body, arising nearly in the same vertical. Teeth in the inter- 
maxilla small, in 4 widely set groups. First group with one, 
second with 3, third with 9, fourth with 8 teeth. About 20 
minute teeth in the maxilla. The largest: of the teeth in the 
mandible is a strongly curved fang near the symphysis. It is 
followed at some distance by a smaller fang, situated outside 
the series of teeth, which are arranged in five groups. The 
first has six teeth, of which the last is by far the Jareestz 
The second group*has 4—6 moderate-sized and some smaller 
teeth, of which the last is the largest. The hindermost 3 groups 
contain about 6 or more teeth in each group. Luminous 
organs as in the genus. Velvety black, distal '/, of dorsal 
and anal translucent, otherwise blackish. Length 112 mm. 
[Not seen by us]. 
Habitat: Celebes sea, South of Philippines (914 M.). — 
Indic: North of Cocos islands (2400 M.); Andamans (1193 M.); 
