﻿wo. 
  1948. 
  NEW 
  BROTULID 
  AND 
  CARAPID 
  FISHES— 
  RADCLIFFE. 
  155 
  

  

  4, 
  a 
  small 
  slit 
  behind 
  the 
  fourth; 
  gill-filaments 
  short; 
  gill-rakers 
  4 
  + 
  5, 
  

   reduced 
  to 
  sUght 
  protuberances; 
  branchiostegals 
  7; 
  pyloric 
  coeca 
  

   absent; 
  stomach 
  greatly 
  elongated, 
  opening 
  to 
  pylorus 
  on 
  lower 
  

   mesial 
  portion; 
  urinary 
  bladder 
  greatly 
  enlarged, 
  nine-sixteenths 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  head, 
  its 
  breadth 
  about 
  0.55 
  its 
  length; 
  scales 
  long, 
  elliptical 
  

   oval, 
  cycloid, 
  persistent, 
  entirely 
  covering 
  head 
  and 
  body; 
  fleshy 
  

   covering 
  of 
  dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  scaled, 
  sculpturing 
  as 
  in 
  related 
  genera; 
  

   lateral 
  line 
  indistinguishable, 
  scales 
  from 
  origin 
  of 
  anal 
  to 
  dorsal 
  43, 
  

   about 
  200 
  transverse 
  rows 
  between 
  angle 
  of 
  opercle 
  and 
  base 
  of 
  

   caudal. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  continuous 
  with 
  the 
  caudal; 
  distance 
  of 
  dorsal 
  

   from 
  tip 
  of 
  snout 
  6.42 
  (7 
  m 
  total 
  length) 
  ; 
  distance 
  of 
  anal 
  from 
  tip 
  

   of 
  snout 
  2.41 
  (2.64 
  in 
  total 
  length) 
  ; 
  both 
  dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  covered 
  with 
  

   thick 
  skhi; 
  ventrals 
  long, 
  each 
  consisting 
  of 
  2 
  divided 
  rays, 
  their 
  

   basal 
  portions 
  joined 
  together 
  for 
  a 
  distance 
  equal 
  to 
  twice 
  diameter 
  

   of 
  eye, 
  inner 
  ray 
  longest, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  head, 
  bases 
  of 
  ventrals 
  

   close 
  together, 
  behind 
  tip 
  of 
  humeral 
  symphysis; 
  pectorals 
  short, 
  

   acutely 
  rounded, 
  1.30 
  in 
  head; 
  distance 
  from 
  base 
  of 
  lower 
  rays 
  to 
  

   anal 
  3.57 
  (3.90 
  in 
  total 
  length). 
  

  

  Color 
  in 
  alcohol: 
  Olivaceous; 
  margin 
  of 
  opercle, 
  lips, 
  and 
  fins 
  

   slightly 
  darker; 
  the 
  posterior 
  rays 
  of 
  dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  and 
  the 
  caudal 
  

   clove 
  brown; 
  peritoneum 
  cinnamon, 
  punctulate 
  with 
  darker. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Csxt. 
  No. 
  74138, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  54.7 
  cm. 
  in 
  length, 
  taken 
  with 
  

   a 
  beam 
  trawl 
  at 
  station 
  5608 
  (lat. 
  00° 
  08' 
  00" 
  S.; 
  long. 
  121° 
  19' 
  00" 
  

   E.), 
  in 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Tomini, 
  Celebes, 
  at 
  a 
  depth 
  of 
  1,089 
  fathoms, 
  on 
  a 
  

   bottom 
  of 
  gray 
  mud. 
  

  

  Genus 
  ERETMICHTHYS 
  Garman. 
  

  

  ERETMICHTHYS 
  REMIFER 
  Smith 
  and 
  Radcliffe, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Plate 
  11, 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  124; 
  caudal 
  8; 
  anal 
  100; 
  ventrals 
  1; 
  pectorals 
  26 
  (11 
  + 
  15). 
  

  

  Head 
  5.82 
  (6.32 
  in 
  total 
  length), 
  flattened 
  anteriorly, 
  the 
  loose 
  

   fleshy 
  covering 
  obscuring 
  the 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  skull; 
  body 
  slender, 
  

   strongly 
  compressed 
  posteriorly, 
  greatest 
  depth 
  7.46 
  (8.12 
  in 
  total 
  

   length); 
  eye 
  8.60 
  in 
  head, 
  small, 
  elhptical-oval, 
  about 
  one-third 
  

   interorbital 
  space, 
  less 
  than 
  one-half 
  length 
  of 
  snout; 
  snout 
  3.91, 
  

   broad, 
  blunt, 
  scarcely 
  projecting 
  beyond 
  mouth; 
  mouth 
  wide, 
  

   shghtly 
  oblique, 
  the 
  lower 
  jaw 
  included; 
  maxillary 
  2.02, 
  reaching 
  an 
  

   eye 
  diameter 
  beyond 
  vertical 
  from 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  eye, 
  largely 
  

   concealed 
  by 
  suborbital, 
  lower 
  angle 
  longer, 
  acute; 
  teeth 
  in 
  villiform 
  

   bands 
  on 
  jaws, 
  vomer, 
  and 
  palatines; 
  opercular 
  spine 
  feeble; 
  pre- 
  

   opercle 
  entire, 
  produced 
  backward 
  nearly 
  to 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  

   opercle; 
  pseudobranchiae 
  consisting 
  of 
  2 
  small 
  filaments; 
  gill 
  fila- 
  

   ments 
  short; 
  gill-rakers 
  4 
  + 
  21, 
  slender, 
  the 
  longest 
  one 
  and 
  two- 
  

  

  