i. Scopelosaurus Hoedti Blkr. 



Scopelosaurus Hoedti Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. 1860, Elfde Bijdr. 



Amboina, p. 13. 

 Scopelosaurtis Hoedti Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 27, 1875, P- *57- 



Fig. 68. Scopelosaurus Hoedti Blkr. (after Bleeker). 



B. 9; D. 2.89; A. 2.1516; P. 2.11; V. 2.8; L.I. 61 ; 

 L. tr. -_t 8; 3(2 ! / 2 ) above L.I. below D. 



Height circa n 3 / 4 , about as broad as high. Pointed head 

 about 4. Eye 3 1 / 3 , 2 / 3 of interorbital space. Fronto-dorsal 

 profile almost straight. Nostrils nearer to orbit than to snout, 

 which is acute and slightly longer than eye. Upper jaw 

 ending below posterior part of eye, twice in length of head. 

 Praeoperculum with an obtusely, rounded, nearly right angle. 

 Operculum thin, translucent, slightly higher than long, inferiorly 

 with a convex margin, superiorly divided by a longitudinal 

 crest. Lower jaw prominent. Origin of dorsal about in the 

 middle between eye and caudal, slightly behind ventrals, much 

 higher than the length of its base and slightly higher than 

 body; acute, not emarginate. Adipose fin slender, oblong, 

 pointed, opposite to posterior rays of anal. Anal as long as 

 or slightly shorter than postocular part of head, longer than 

 high, acute, emarginate. Pectorals acute, conspicuously shorter 

 than head without snout, not reaching ventrals. Ventrals much 

 shorter than pectorals, nearer to head than to anal. Caudal 

 deeply incised, with the lobes acute and subequal. Small teeth 

 in the intermaxillary in one series, in the mandible in several 

 series, the vomerine teeth in a transverse series, those in the 

 palatines in a long series. Scales cycloid, those on the tail 

 smaller, none on head. Lateral line nearly straight. Luminous 

 organs (?) in 3 longitudinal ventral series. Length of single 

 specimen known 151 mm. [Type in the Leyden Museum 

 seen by us]. 



Habitat: Ambon! 



In sea. 



