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Bay of Bengal (2500 M.); near Chagos islands (1g00 M.). 
Atlantic: Westcoast of South Africa (2000 M.). 
7. Vinciguerria Jordan & Evermann. 
(JorpAN & EverMANN, Fishes of North & Middle America I 1896, p. 577). 
Elongate, compressed. Scales thin, cycloid. Besides those on 
the head there are on each side 2 rows of pearlike luminous 
organs, a ventral one running from the isthmus to the caudal, 
a more lateral one between operculum and vertical through 
anus. Head compressed, conical. Snout pointed, gape of mouth 
wide, bordered by the intermaxillary and by the maxillary, 
which is ventrally curved and reaches with its dilated posterior 
end slightly behind the eye, which is large. Lower jaw 
enclosed within the maxillaries. Its symphysial and posterior 
inferior angle prominent. Dorsal short, beginning nearly in 
the middle of the length; the origin of the short anal is op- 
posite to its posterior part. The short adipose fin behind the 
vertical through end of anal. Caudal forked, pectorals inserted 
low down. Origin of ventrals before dorsal. A series of small 
unequal teeth in the jaws, slightly increasing in size backward. 
On the palatines a series from 4—5 teeth. Gillmembranes not 
united, free from isthmus. Gillopenings wide, gillrakers well 
developed. 
Bathypelagic fishes. 
I. Vinciguerria lucetia (Garm.). 
Maurolicus lucetius Garman, Albatross Exp. XXVI. Fishes, 1899, p. 242. 
Vinciguerria lucetia Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 97. 
Vinciguerria lucetia Zugmayer, Campagnes Scient. Monaco, XXXV. Ig11, p. 56. 
Vinciguerria lucetia Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 21. 
B. 9—11; D. 13—14; A. 14—15; P. 8—9; V. vis 
Height 5—8, head 3'/,—4'/;, eye oval 3'/,—3'/,, equal to 
the pointed snout, twice as long as the slightly concave inter- 
orbital space. Gape of mouth wide. Upper jaw ventrally 
rounded, posteriorly dilated, surpassing posterior border of 
eye. Lower jaw with a prominent symphysial angle, its inferior 
posterior angle prominent, enclosed between the maxillaries. 
Origin of dorsal in middle of length or slightly before it, its 
8th ray above about the origin of anal, which is situated at 
