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SPECIES 



HABITAT 



DEPTH 



IN lATHDMS 



REMARKS 



')Kingsleyi Bate 1888. . . 



tnedia Bate 1888 



media Bate var. obliquiros- 



tris de Man 1916 . . . . 

 tnicrophthalnia S. I. Smith 



1885 



mollis (S. I. Smith) 1882 



pidchra A. M.-Edw. 1890. 

 purpurea A. M.-Edw. 1881 . 



purpurea A. M.-Edw. var. 

 acanthitelsonis Bate 1888. 



rostrata (Bate) 1888 



sanguinea W.-Mas. 1892. 



South-west of Sierra Leone 

 Oft' Tablas Island, Philippines 



Halmaheira Sea 



Off the east coast of the United States 



Off the coast of Portugal [longidens Bate) 



Bay of Bengal 



Oft" the Philippine Islands {longidens 

 Bate) 



South Pacific [longidens Bate) 



Off the east coast of the United States 



Off Pernambuco 



Off Portugal 



Mediterranean 



Mediterranean 



Adriatic 



Northern Atlantic, both on the east 

 and on the west side, from Davis 

 Strait and Iceland to south of the 

 Cape Verde Islands, though not 

 yet observed in the West Indies. 



Equatorial and southern Atlantic 



North of the Falkland Islands 



Cape of Good Hope 



Indian Ocean, south of the Equator 



South of Australia 



Off New Zealand 



Off the Kermadec Islands 



Between Australia and the Solomon 

 Islands 



Indian Archipelago 



South of Japan 



Gulf of Panama 



Coast of Ecuador 



South-west of Sierra Leone 

 Equatorial Atlantic 

 South-west of the Azores 



Near Torres Strait 

 Philippine Islands 

 North Pacific 

 Arabian Sea 

 Bay of Bengal 

 Andaman Sea 



2500 

 700 



1013 



2574, 2620 



1748 

 2150 



237s 



1 106, 1632 



675 



690 — 1550 

 From 105 to 

 2949. It has once 

 been taken, off 

 the east coast of 

 theUnited States, 

 at the surface. 



With this species Acantli. 

 longidens Bate 1888 is 

 regarded as identical ; 

 its validity is, however, 

 still maintained by 

 COUTIERE 191 I. 



For this species confer 

 p. 41. 



With this species /Ifrtw//;. 

 Haeckeliiiy .Vi.?s.xt.)\'ie'i, 

 Acanth. Agassizi (S. I. 

 Smith) 18S2, Acanth. 

 sica Bate \^'6%, Acanth. 

 rectirostris Riggio 1900 

 and Acanth. Ba^ei Steb- 

 bing 1905 are identical, 

 while Acanth. parva 

 Cout. 1905 has proved 

 to be a very young 

 form of Acanth. pur- 

 purea. 



1500, 1850 



1640 

 0—1093 

 o — ^1640 



1400 



1050 



2775 

 295 — 1 09 1 



1748 

 194 — 640 



i) In the Table of Species oi Acanthephyra^ published by Stanley Kkmp in: "Fisheries, Ireland. Sci. Invest., 1905, I., [1906], 

 p. 24", Acantli. Kingslevi has erroneously been placed in Section C, in which the rostrum is unarmed below; this remark is also applicable 

 to a variety of .Acanth. brcviiostris S. I. Smith, recorded by F.\xoN from the north coast of Ecuador. 



