Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 455 



227. TALISMANIA, Goode & Bean. 

 ia, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 41, 1895, (komcfttntt). 

 This genus is closely allied to Batkytroctes, differing chiefly in the longer 

 vertical fins, the dorsal and anal being similar to each other and nearly 

 opposite. Deep sea. (Named for the Talisman, one of the French vessels 

 (Traraillcnr </ Tdlimnan) employed in deep-sea explorations.) 

 . Maxillary reaching vertical from anterior margin of orbit. ANTILLARUM, 749. 



mi. Maxillary reaching vertical from posterior margin of orbit. JEQUATORIS, 750. 



749. TALISMANIA ANTILLARUM, Goode & Bean. 



Head 3| ; depth 5 ; eye 3 ; pupil large, 2i in orbit ; snout 4. D. 20 ; A. 

 22; B. 7; P. 13; V. 8. Scales 47. Maxillary reaching orbit, and 

 essentially to the vertical from the anterior margin of the pupil ; bones 

 of head thin ; head compressed, moderately deep, its depth at occiput 

 | its length; profile of head in advance of orbit, slightly concave; upper 

 margin of orbit approaching very close to upper profile; supraorbital rim 

 forming a portion of dorsal profile of the head ; width of interorbital space 

 nearly half, diameter of eye. Eye large, conspicuous. Infraorbital ring 

 very narrow ; maxillary separated from the orbit by a very narrow strip 

 of bone. Snout sharply conical, its upper profile concave, jaws equal 

 in front. Dentition feeble; all the teeth equal, minute, uniserial ; inter- 

 maxillary and maxillary toothed throughout ; vomerine series transverse 

 and straight, slightly interrupted in the middle; palatine series nearly as 

 long as the vomerine ; the two last-named series confluent. Branchioste- 

 gals 7, exceedingly slender and long. Gills 4, the fourth well developed, 

 with a slit behind it ; gill laminae short, especially on the convex portion 

 of the arches ; gill rakers long, laneceolate, closely set, 17 on the outer 

 branchial arch below the angle, 7 above. Vent equidistant between root 

 of caudal and gill opening; origin of the dorsal nearer to the latter ; dorsal 

 fin longer than high, its anterior rays increasing in length from eighth to 

 nineteenth ray ; origin of the anal somewhat in advance of dorsal, which 

 is inserted over third ray at the point where it emerges from its scaly 

 sheath; caudal fin deeply emarginate ; pectoral fin inserted in lower 

 third of height of body, moderately broad at its base ; its upper rays 

 nearly twice as long as lower ones ; its length half that of head ; its tip, 

 when extended straight, in vertical from insertion of ventral, or opposite 

 twelfth scale of lateral line ; ventrals close together, not reaching vent, 

 but to origin of the sheath which incloses both vent and base of anal ; 

 their length equal to that of lower rays of pectoral, and to length of 

 snout ; root of ventral midway between tip of snout and rows above 

 the ventrals. Lateral line in a concave sweep from near upper angle of 

 operculam to a point above the origin of basal sheath of the anal, thence 

 in a straight line to base of caudal. Color of the specimen (denuded of 

 scales and long kept in alcohol) rusty brown j head blackish. 



A single specimen was obtained by the Albatross at station 2394, lati- 

 tude 28 38' 30" N., longitude 87 02' W., at a depth of 420 fathoms. 

 (Goode & Bean.) (Antillarum, of the Antilles.) 



Talismania antillarum, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 44, fig. 49, 1895, Gulf of Mexico, 

 in 420 fathoms. (Type, No. 43739.^ 



