28o DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Genus Bonapartia, Goode and Bean 



Goode and Bean, 1895, Ocean. Ichth. p. 102. ^ 



Zaphotias (Goode and Bean), Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlvii (3), 



p. 2826. 



Cleft of mouth wide. Both jaws with strong acute teeth set at more or less regular 

 intervals, and with much smaller teeth in the interspaces; a single series of minute 

 teeth on each palatine, somewhat enlarged anteriorly; a patch of similar teeth on the 

 pterygoid. Gill-openings very wide; gill-rakers long, comparatively few in number. 

 Scales large, cycloid. A single series of photophores on either side of the abdomen. 

 Dorsal 19; no adipose fin. Anal 29-30; origin a little in advance of that of dorsal; 

 anterior rays greatly prolonged. Pectoral and pelvic small. 



A single species. 



Bonapartia pedaliota, Goode and Bean. 



Goode and Bean, 1895, Ocean. Ichth. p. 102, fig. 120; Jordan and Evermann, 1896, Bull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. XLvn (i), p. 580; Jespersen and Taning, 1919, Vid. Medd. Dansk nat. For. Lxx, 

 p. 221, pi. xvii, figs. 7-8. 

 Zaphotias pedaliotus, Jordan and Evermann, 1898, ibid. XLvn (3), p. 2826. 



St. 282. 12. viii. 27. 1° 11' 00" S, 5° 38' 00" E. Young-fish trawl, 300 (-0) m. : I specimen, 47 mm. 



Depth of body 4I in the length, length of head 3f . Snout about as long as eye, 

 diameter of which is nearly 4 in length of head and a little greater than interorbital 

 width. About 12 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. About 40 scales in a longi- 



Fig. 6. Bonapartia pedaliota. (x 2.) 



tudinal series. Dorsal 19; origin equidistant from posterior margin of eye and base of 

 caudal. Anal 29-30; origin equidistant from end of snout and base of caudal; the 

 anterior rays greatly prolonged, the third and fourth about \ length of fish, reaching 

 caudal when laid back; base of fin more than twice as long as that of dorsal. Pectoral 



1 Goode and Bean's Oceanic Ichthyology was first published as a Special Bulletin of the United States 

 National Museum, bearing the date 1895 on the title-page. It was subsequently published as Memoir XXII 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1896), and as a Smithsonian Contribution to Ktiowledge, XXX (1896). 

 Buttikofer's note of the name Bonapartia (Aves) occurs in Notes Leyden Museum, xvin, June, 1896, p. 58. 



