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on vomer. No spines on snout or opercles. Gill membranes somewhat 

 united, free from isthmus. Gill rakers slender, rather long, 10 to 12 on 

 lower part of arch. Scales very small, mostly lost posteriorly (in our 

 specimen) and not to be exactly counted; lateral line not evident. 

 First dorsal rather low and long, none of its rays produced, the longest 

 about i head ; ventrals filamentous, | head ; pectorals about - head ; caudal 

 2 head; anal deeply notched behind the middle, its posterior lobe high- 

 est. Color uniform purplish black, the fins paler. One young individual, 

 2J inches long, from Albatross Station 2993, off the Revillagigedo Islands. 

 (verecundus, modest.) 



Lepidion verecundum, JORDAN & CRAMER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 456, Revillagigedo 

 Islands, at Albatross Station 2993. (Coll. Albatross.) 



984. ANTIMORA, Giinther. 

 Antimora, GUNTHER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, 2 (rostrata). 



This group differs from Lepidion in the form of the snout, the backward 

 position of th*e vent, the imperfect ^division of the anal, in which latter 

 respect it approaches Mora. In Lepidion the snout is subconical, obtusely 

 rounded; in Antimora it forms a flat, triangular lamina, sharply keeled at 

 the sides, resembling the snout of Nacrourus. Body elongate, compressed, 

 tapering into a slender tail. Scales very small. Head entirely scaly, 

 even to the gill membranes. Snout depressed, thin and flat, projecting 

 beyond the mouth; mouth rather large; chin with a barbel; jaws with 

 bands of villiform teeth; a small roundish patch of teeth on vomer, none 

 on palatines. Dorsal fins 2, the first short, its anterior ray produced into 

 a long filament; anal fin deeply notched, almost separated into 2 fins; 

 ventral fins with 6 rays, 1 of them filamentous ; caudal truncate. Branchi 

 ostegalsT. Deep-water fishes, (avri, opposite; Mora, a related genus.) 



a. Head rather small, 4^ in length; scales 115. VIOLA, 2914. 



aa. Head rather large, about 3 in length ; scales 130. MICROLEPIS, 2915. 



2914. ANTIMORA. YIOLA (Goode & Bean). 



Head 4i in body; depth 5. D.4-53; A. 40; V. 6; scales 11-115-27. 

 Snout broad, pointed at tip, much depressed, forming a roof-like projec- 

 tion above mouth; a conspicuous keel extending backward from tip of 

 snout along the suborbital to the posterior margin of the eye. Mouth 

 U-shaped, wholly inferior; maxillary nearly reaching posterior margin of 

 orbit; interorbital space flat, as wide as the large eye, the orbital ridges 

 somewhat elevated; barbel about -J diameter of orbit. First dorsal with 

 its first ray much produced, longer than head; anal fin deeply notched 

 near its middle. Caudal peduncle as long as eye, its depth more than \ 

 its length; longest ray of ventrals reaching about halfway to vent; pec- 

 toral 1| in head. Color deep violet or blue black ; inside of mouth and 

 opercles blue black. Banks of Newfoundland and southward, in deep 

 water. (Goode & Bean.) (viola, violet.) 



Haloporphyrus viola, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1, 1878, 256, La Have Bank, 400 



to 500 fathoms ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 800, 1883. 

 Antimora viola, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 372, fig. 324, 1896. 



