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Bay of Bengal (2500 M.); near Chagos islands (1900 M.). 

 Atlantic: Westcoast of South Africa (2000 M.). 



7. Vinciguerria Jordan & Evermann. 



(JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes of North & Middle America I 1896, p. 577). 



Elongate, compressed. Scales thin, cycloid. Besides those on 

 the head there are on each side 2 rows of pearlike luminous 

 organs, a ventral one running from the isthmus to the caudal, 

 a more lateral one between operculum and vertical through 

 anus. Head compressed, conical. Snout pointed, gape of mouth 

 wide, bordered by the intermaxillary and by the maxillary, 

 which is ventrally curved and reaches with its dilated posterior 

 end slightly behind the eye, which is large. Lower jaw 

 enclosed within the maxillaries. Its symphysial and posterior 

 inferior angle prominent. Dorsal short, beginning nearly in 

 the middle of the length; the origin of the short anal is op- 

 posite to its posterior part. The short adipose fin behind the 

 vertical through end of anal. Caudal forked, pectorals inserted 

 low down. Origin of ventrals before dorsal. A series of small 

 unequal teeth in the jaws, slightly increasing in size backward. 

 On the palatines a series from 4 5 teeth. Gillmembranes not 

 united, free from isthmus. Gillopenings wide, gillrakers well 

 developed. 



Bathypelagic fishes. 



i. Vinciguerria lucetia (Garm.). 



Maurolicus lucetiiis Garman, Albatross Exp. XXVI. Fishes, 1899, p. 242. 

 Vincigticrria lucetia Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 97. 

 Vinciguerria lucetia Zugmayer, Campagnes Scient. Monaco, XXXV. 1911, p. 56. 

 Vinciguerria lucetia Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 21. 



B. 9 n; D. 1314; A. 1415; P. 89; V. 7. 



Height 58, head 3 1 / 5 4^, eye oval 3V 3 3 ! /i ec l ual to 

 the pointed snout, twice as long as the slightly concave inter- 

 orbital space. Gape of mouth wide. Upper jaw ventrally 

 rounded, posteriorly dilated, surpassing posterior border of 

 eye. Lower jaw with a prominent symphysial angle, its inferior 

 posterior angle prominent, enclosed between the maxillaries. 

 Origin of dorsal in middle of length or slightly before it, its 

 8 th ray above about the origin of anal, which is situated at 



