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867. MAUROLICUS PENNANTI (Walbaum). 



Head 3i ; depth 4. D. 11 or 12 ; A. 11 + 18, the last rays very fine and 

 not easily counted. Luminous spots occurring as impressions on the 

 skin, not sitting on black globular bodies ; twelve pairs of luminous 

 spots along belly before ventrals ; 9 in an upper series between pectorals 

 and ventral , this series not continued backward; series from vent to 

 caudal 1 + 14 + 8 = 23, with slight interruptions, the last spots close 

 together; along shoulder girdle and isthmus 7; 7 about gill opening; 1 

 before eye and 2 behind it. Front of dorsal considerably nearer base of 

 caudal than tip of snout, its last ray over origin of anal. Length 

 2i inches. (Liitken ; Giinther.) Open seas, widely distributed, occasion- 

 ally taken off the New England Coast. (Nahant, Provincetowii, Woods 

 Holl, etc.) (Named for Thomas Pennant, author of early works on 

 Arctic Zoology and on the fishes of .England.) (Eu.) 



Argentina pennanti, WALBAUM, Artedi Pise., 47, 1792, England; after " Sheppy Argentine " of 



PENNANT. 



Scopelus borealis, NILSSON, Observ. Zool., 9, 1835, Norway. 



Manri>Ju-ns mnethystino-punctatus, Cocco, Lett. su. Salmon., 161, 1838, coast of Italy. 

 Scopelus maurolici, CU.VIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xxn, 439, 1849; after Cocco. 

 Manrolicus miillcri, KROYER, Danmark's Fiske, in, 113, 1838, Denmark. 

 Scopelus humboldli, I)E KAY, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 246, 1842. 

 Maurolicus borealis and amethystitio-punctatus, GUNTHER, Cat.,v, 389, 390, 1864. 

 Mauroliciis pennanti, STOKER, Hist. Fishes Mass., 328, 1867; not of CUVIEK; LUTKEN, Spolia 



Atlantica, n, 47, 1892; LILLJEBJORO, Sveriges Fiskar, vi, 10, 1889. 

 Mauroliciis borealis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 284, 1883. 



271. V1NCIGUERRIA, Jordan & Evermann. 



Vinciguerria, JORDAN & EVEKMANN, new genus, (attenuata), 



This genus is close to Maurolicus, from which it differs, according to 

 Liitken, chiefly in the character of its luminous spots which are pearl- 

 like and placed on black globular bodies. Anal short, of 14 rays. 

 (Named for Dr. Decio Vinciguerra, director of the Acquario Romano, and 

 one of the most active and scholarly of the naturalists of Italy.) 



868. VINCIGUERRIA ATTENUATA (Cocco). 



Head 3; depth 6. D. 12 ; A. 14. Last ray of dorsal just behind ver- 

 tical from origin of anal. Luminous spots slightly prominent, " appear- 

 ing as convex pearls, each sitting on a black globular body ;" twefve to 

 14 pairs of spots between front of anal and base of caudal; upper row 

 from gill opening to ventrals with 12, 11 between ventrals and anal; 

 from tip of isthmus to anal, 7 + 16 + 10 = 33 spots. Length 2 inches. 

 Open Atlantic, west to the Bahamas; in deep water. (Liitken, etc.) 

 (attenuatus, slender.) (Eu.) 

 Maurolicus attenuatus, Cocco, Lett. su. Salmon., 33, 1838, coast of Italy; GUNTHER, Cat., v, 



390, 1864; LUTKEN, Spolia Atlantica, n, 271, 1892. 

 Scopelus tenorei, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xxn, 440, 1849; after Cocco. 



272. VALENCIENNELLUS, Jordan & Evermann. 



Valenciennellm, JORDAN & EVERMANN, new genus, (tripunctulatus). 



This genus is close to Maurolicus but with the dorsal fin farther back, 

 opposite anal, its first ray nearly over front of anal. Photophores above 



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