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Habitat: The single specimen known was captured with 

 the deep-sea trawl, hauled up from a depth of 1944 M. Banda 

 sea, 5 26' S., 121 1 8' E. ! 



2. Leptocephalus taenia Less. 



Lcptocephalus taenia Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zoologie II. 1830, p. 126. 

 Leptocephalus taenia Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish 1856, p. 151. 

 Leptocephalus Scheeli Stromman, Leptocephalids of the University Zoolog. 



Museum at Upsala. Dissertatio Upsala 1896, p. 21. 

 Leptocephalus taenia Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 67. 



I. Stage with 106 segments. Length 19.5 mm. 



Height 2 mm.; head 1.75 mm.; distance of anus from 

 end of tail about I mm., from head 16.75 mm. 



Height 9.7; head II; tail 19.5 times in total length. 

 Snout pointed, part of head behind it convex. Eye more 

 than twice in snout, cleft of mouth reaching frontborder 



Fig. 204. Head of Leptocephalus taenia Less, 

 of 19.5 mm. length. X 45- 



of eye. Seven pointed larval teeth on each side in the 

 jaws, of which the 3 posterior ones in the upper jaw 

 are conspicuously smaller. End of tail surrounded by 

 very delicate fin rays. Absolutely without pigment, only 

 an incomplete black ring in the periphery of the 

 Fig. 205. Lepto- chorioidea. 



cephalus taenia T>I i / > / 



Less, of 19.5 mm. 1 he Sln g le specimen found in surface plankton near 

 length x 8. Island Sailus Ketjil, Paternoster Islands! 



