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357 Coelorhynchus carminatus (Goode) 



Macrurus carminatus GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 346, 475, 1880. 

 Macrurus (Coelorhynchus) carminatus GTJNTHER, Challenger Report, Deep- 



sea Fishes. XXII, 129, pi. 5, fig. 13, 1887. 

 Coelorhynchus carminatus GOQDE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichth. 398, fig. 336, 1896; 



JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2588, 1898; IV, pi. 



CCCLXIX, fig. 914, 1900. 



The body is stout anteriorly, tapering very rapidly to a rather 

 long and slender tail. The .depth is one eighth, and the length 

 of the head about one fifth of the total length. The eye is large, 

 one fifth as long as the head, equaling the interorbital width. 

 The snout is as long as the eye. The body is less elongate than 

 in Baird's grenadier. The snout is long, sharp, depressed, tri- 

 angular. Strong horizontal ridges rujn from the supraorbital 

 margins to the gill openings, parallel with the subocular ridges. 

 The nostrils are immediately in front of the orbit; barbel very 

 short; teeth small, conic, somewhat recurved, arranged in villi- 

 form bands; base of first dorsal fin two ninths as long as the 

 distance from its origin to the snout. The first dorsal spine is 

 very short, hardly perceptible above the skin. The second spine 

 is about one half as long as the head, slender and unarmed; 

 when laid back, the tip reaches to or beyond the origin of the 

 second dorsal. The spines decrease in length very gradually, 

 the sixth being nearly as long as the second. The second dorsal 

 begins in the perpendicular from the seventh anal ray. The 

 anal fin is much higher than in Baird's grenadier, nearly 

 equal to one half of the interorbital width; its origin is under 

 the 18th scale of the lateral line; its longest ray is as long as 

 the interorbital width. The distance of pectoral from snout 

 equals twice its own length, and about equals the longest dorsal 

 spine; the origin of the pectoral is below the middle of the depth 

 of the body, and below the level of the middle of the orbit; the 

 tip of the pectoral does not reach the origin of the anal. The 

 insertion of the ventrals is behind the pectoral, slightly in 

 advance of the first dorsal, its distance from the snout greater 

 than twice its length, its long filament not reaching the anal. 

 Color silvery gray. Length of the specimen described 10 inches. 



