330 



not free. No scales; lateral line distinct, with 3 series of pores. 

 Gillopenings wide, running downward and forward, nearly 

 confluent. 



Distribution: Bathypelagic (334 4330 M.). Atlantic, Indie 

 and Pacific, between about 30 N. 50 S. 



i. Nemichthys scolopaceus Rich. [Fig. 157, p. 329]. 



Ncnrichthys scolopaceus Richardson, Zool. Voy. Samarang Fishes 1848, p. 25. 

 Lcptorhyncus Leuchtenbcrgii Lowe, Mem. Acad. St. Petersbourg, Mem. Sav. 



etrang. 1854, p. 171. 



Bclonopsis Leuchtenbergii Lowe, Ibid. p. 174. 



Nemichthys scolopacea GUnther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 21. 

 Nemichthys scolopaceus Peters, Sitzber. Akad. Berlin (1876) 1877, p. 849. 

 Nemichthys scolopaceus Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exped. Tiefseefische 1906, p. 126 



(see syn.). 

 Nemichthys scolopaceus Roule, Ann. Inst. Oceanogr. I. fasc. 6, 1910, p. i. 



Fig. 158. Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson (After A. BRAUER). 



D. more than 300 rays; P. n. 



Height 57 72; head 10 11. Eye about '/s of postorbital 

 part of head, 7 times in snout (in large specimens). Rays in 

 the second third of the length of the dorsal after BRAUER ! ), 

 destitute of membrane, spinelike and much shorter than 

 the rays in the first and last third, which are much 



i) L. ROULE (1. s. c. p. 3) says: "La nageoire dorsale est fine et delicate. Sa 

 membrane est tres mince; aussi parait-elle manquer, ou se reduire a quelques 

 tractus basilaires, dans la majeure partie de la region denticulee; son bord depasse 

 les rayons. Cette nageoire se differencie en trois regions: deux filamenteuses et 

 terminales, Tune ant6rieure, 1'autre posterieurc ; une denticulee et intermediaire. 



