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extending far behind eye, its length less than that of preorbital portion 

 of head; mandible as long as postorbifcal portion of head; jaws, vonier, 

 and palatines with narrow bands of villiform teeth, normally arranged! 

 Branchiostegals 8. Gill lamella very short; gill rakers long and numer- 

 ous, 18 on first arch below the angle, 5 above, 4 of which are rudimentary. 

 Pseudobranclme present, but very rudimentary. Anterior nostrils on the 

 top of the snout and near the median line of the hed, near its tip, separ- 

 ated by a space about equal to diameter of eye ; posterior nostrils in front 

 rf eye. Muciferous pores large, arranged much as in B. catena. Dorsal 

 origin in the same vertical with that of pectorals, its distance from tip of 

 snout contained 5 times in total and equaling twice length of maxillary. 

 Rays well developed in anterior third, the longest f of head; anal origin 

 under twentieth dorsal ray, its rays nearly as long as those of dorsal; 

 pectoral with its penultimate ray produced, extending to thirteenth ray 

 of anal, nearly twice as long as head; ventrals originating in advance of 

 vertical through pectorals, and each a bifid filament; distance of ven- 

 tral origin from tip of snout equaling length of ventral and about as 

 long as head; distance of ventral origin from vent considerably greater 

 than length of head; distance from tip of ventral to vent equal to \ the 

 length of the head. Number of scales in transverse series from vent to 

 dorsal about 23 ; from the upper angle of the gill opening to the vertical 

 through origin of anal 32. Color brownish yellow; head and abdomen 

 blackish. The type (No. 37342, U. S. Nat. Mus.) was taken at Albatross 

 Station 2380, Lat. 28 02' 30" N., Long. 87 43' 45" W. in 1,430 fathoms. It 

 is 183 mm. long to the caudal base, 215 with caudal. Another young speci- 

 men, 70 mm. long, was taken at Blake Station XCV, off Dominica, in 330 

 fathoms. (Goode & Bean.) (pectoralis, pertaining to the breast.) 

 Nematonus pectoralis, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 604, Lat. 28 02' 30" N., 

 Long. 870 43' 45" W., in 1,430 fathoms (Type, No. 37342. Coll. Albatross) ; GUNTHER, 

 Challenger Keport, xxn, 114, 1887; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 333, fig. 295, 1896. 



968. POROGADUS, Goode & Bean. 



Porogadus, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 682 (miles). 



Body brotuliform, much compressed; head with numerous spines on 

 interorbital space, 2 pairs on the shoulders, 1 at angle of operculum 

 and a double series on angle of preoperculum ; head with numerous 

 mucous pores, as in Bassozetus ; mouth large; snout moderate, not pro- 

 jecting much beyond the upper jaw; jaws nearly equal in front; teeth in 

 villiform bands in jaws and on vomer and palatines; barbel none; gill 

 openings wide, membranes narrowly united, not attached to the isthmus; 

 gills 4; gill laminse short; gill rakers moderate, numerous; pseudo- 

 branchiae absent; caudal fin of few rays, on a very narrow base, not pro- 

 longed, scarcely differentiated from the vertical fins; dorsal and anal fins 

 well developed; pectorals simple, moderate; each ventral a single bifid 

 ray close to the humeral symphysis ; branchiostegals 8 ; scales small ; lateral 

 line apparently triple, or replaced by 3 series of pores 1 close to ventral 

 outline, 1 median, and another along base of dorsal, (rtdpot, pore; Gadus, 

 the codfish.) 



