Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 885 



APHANOPIN*;: 



a. Dorsal divided into two portions; front of anal with a dagger-shaped spine behind vent; 

 ventrals wanting; vertebra 43 + 57 = 100. APHANOPUS, 402. 



LEPIDOPIN.T;: 

 a. Dorsal fin continuous; front of anal without dagger-shaped spine; ventrals reduced to a 



pair of scales; body not very slender; head with a crest above. 



6. Dorsal rays less than 100; two distinct postanal scutes; ventrals behind base of .pectorals, 

 c. Head short, high, compressed above to a trenchant edge; jawsequal; profile convex. 



EVOXYMETOPON, 403. 



oc. Head rather long, with lateral occipital crests converging anteriorly; lower jaw 



projecting. LEPIDOPUS, 404. 



bb. Body low; head without crest; dorsal rays about 150; one postanal scute; ventrals 



below base of pectorals. BENTIIODESMUS, 405. 



402. APHANOPUS, Lowe. 



Aplianopm, LOWE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 79, (carbo). 



Body very elongate, band-like, scaleless ; head long, pointed ; cleft of 

 mouth very wide ; jaws armed with strong, lanceolate teeth arranged in 

 single series and in common alveolar groove; no teeth on palatine; eye 

 very large; back occupied by a long dorsal fin, divided in two subequal 

 parts ; anal spines numerous and feeble ; a dagger-shaped spine behind 

 vent ; caudal well developed, deeply cleft; pectorals moderate, rounded; 

 ventrals absent ; branchiostegals 7 ; air bladder present. Pyloric append- 

 dages few. Two species in the deep sea. (a<j>avfa, invisible ; note , foot.) 



1274. APHANOPUS MINOR, Collett. 



Head about 2f in length of body to vent ; eye about 44 in h^ad. D. 

 XLI, X + ? ; B. 11. Eight long teeth in the intermaxillary, the two fore- 

 most "canines" the longest ; 8 teeth in the lower jaw, a trifle shorter; no 

 teeth in vorner and the palatine bones. Ventrals none ; a strong dagger- 

 shaped spine behind vent. Air bladder present ; pyloric coeca 7. Dark 

 silvery or steel-colored. Length from tip of snout to vent (in the single 

 specimen examined) 352 millimeters. One specimen known, from the east 

 coast of Greenland, 65 N., 31 / W. (Collett.) (minor, smaller.) 



Aphanopus minor, COLLETT, Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. Christiania, No. 19, 3, 1886, east coast of 

 Greenland; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 207, 1895. 



403. EVOXYMETOPON, Poey. 



(TlRANTES.) 

 Evoxymetopon (POEY) GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 228, (ttmiatus). 



Body very elongate, band-like; head with the supraocular portion com- 

 pressed into a trenchant edge, and the upper profile abruptly descending 

 toward the end of the snout ; eye of moderate size, much below upper 

 profile. Cleft of mouth wide; teeth lanceolate, in single rows, with 

 larger ones in front; a series of small teeth on palatines. Fins as in 

 Lepidopus. One species, (eu, true; 6#-f, sharp; ^TUTTOV, forehead.) 



