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about equal to length of tail. Eye about 10, about twice in 

 snout, situated above tip of lower jaw. Posterior nostrils a slit 

 in upper lip, below eye; anterior nostrils in a short tube situated 

 near point of cone of snout. Snout conical, very strongly 

 prominent. Cleft of mouth 4 times in head and extending about 

 wo eye-diameters behind eye. Dorsal and anal visible near 



Fig' 155- Sphagebranchiis klazingai M. Web. 

 a lateral, 1) ventral view ; v anterior, h posterior nostril, k gillopening. 



tip of tail only. Gillopenings longer than eye, situated ventrally 

 and converging anteriorly. Yellowish with indication of small, 

 dark patches, head with light marmorations. Length 127 mm. 

 [Type of the species in the zoological Museum of Amsterdam]. 

 Habitat: Banda, sandy bottom between 9 and 45 M. depth! 



5. Sphagebranchus mindora (Jord. & Rich.) 



Coecula mindora Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. fisheries XXVII. (1907) 



1908, p. 239. 

 Sphagebranchus mindora de Beaufort, Bijdr. Dierk. Amsterdam, afl. 19. 1913, p. 99. 



Height 25 30; head 7.7, 2.6 2.8 in trunk, head and trunk 

 slightly shorter than tail. Eye about 17 25, somewhat more 

 than twice in snout, situated above end of anterior third of 

 cleft of mouth. Snout pointed, its tip rounded, prominent; cleft 

 of mouth 2.5 times in length of head, reaching far behind eye. 

 The distance of the origin of dorsal from gillopenings 4 4.6 

 in length of head. Dorsal and anal well developed, low; height 

 of dorsal about ] / G of height of body; anal, at least its anterior 

 part, as also posterior part of dorsal, twice as high. Both fins 

 ending opposite to each other shortly before end of tail. Teeth 

 acute, recurved, uniserial, those of the vomer much larger 

 and stouter, about 6 10, separated from each other. On the 



