ee 
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Gonostoma elongatum Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6). VIII. 1891, p. 127, — 
Descript. Cat. Indian Deep-sea Fishes, 1899, p. 139. 
Cyclothone elongata Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 1895, p. 101. 
Cyclothone elongata Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North & Middle America, I. 
1896, p. 583. 
Gonostoma elongatum Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee Exp. Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 75. 
Gonostoma elongatum Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1913, p. 17. 
Fig. 45. Gonostoma elongatum Gthr. (after Brauer). 
ee B45 De 13); eA. 27-30; P., 11133, V. 78: 
Height about 7, head 4'/, or more, eye 6—-8, equal to snout 
or somewhat shorter and less than interorbital space. Nostrils 
nearer to eye than to point of snout. Suborbital bone broad, 
dilated, covering about anterior half of cheek. Gape of mouth 
exceedingly wide. Intermaxillary reaching to vertical through 
anterior border of eye. Maxillary curved, extending to angle 
of praeoperculum. Lower jaw prominent with a pointed sym- 
physis. Origin of short dorsal and long anal opposed, behind 
middle of body and slightly behind anus, before the beginning 
of the last '/, of the length. Anal ending behind adipose fin, 
near forked caudal. Ventrals before middle of body, not 
reaching the anal. Pectorals short, not extending to ventrals. 
No scales. Intermaxilla with 2—4, maxilla with 12—15 curved 
larger teeth, the two hindermost directed sowewhat backward, 
the spaces between them filled with smaller teeth. Man- 
dible with about 10 large, slightly curved teeth, numerous 
smaller ones between them. Vomer edentulous. Palatines with 
a series of 3—5 teeth. Luminous organs: a black suborbital 
organ, ventrally connected with a yellowish organ obliquely 
directed backward. One dorsally at the hindborder of the 
praeoperculum, ventrally connected with a long yellow glan- 
dular patch. One behind the end of the maxilla; an incon- 
spicuous one on each side behind the symphysis, 9 between 
the branchiostegal rays. A ventral series of 4 between isthmus 
and pectorals, 10—11 between pectorals and ventrals, 5 be- 
