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THREE NEW DEEP-WATER FISHES FROM THE 

 WEST INDIES 



By GEORGE S. MYERS 



.-Issistant Curator, Division of Fishes, U.S. National Museum 

 (With One Plate) 



Preliminary examination of the fishes obtained by the Johnson- 

 Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition in 1933 has disclosed the presence 

 of several new forms, three of which are herewith diagnosed. 



Family GONOSTOMATIDAE 



Margrcthia ohtusirostra was described by Jespersen and Taning ' 

 from postlarval and adolescent individuals obtained at a depth of 

 about 150 meters in the eastern Atlantic by the Margrethe. No exact 

 localities are given, except for the two figured specimens, in the 

 explanation of the plate, and as for range the authors merely state, 

 " the distribution closely coincides with that shown by Donapartia 

 pedaliota," that is, Cadiz Bay and the Atlantic south of the latitude 

 of the Azores. The description is very short, and the authors probably 

 intended to present a more extended account later, as they did for the 

 Mediterranean species, but this has not appeared. I find no record of 

 the capture of additional specimens. In the collections obtained by the 

 Caroline I find a single large Margrethia which differs distinctly 

 from M. ohtusirostra in many ways. 



MARGRETHIA DISJUNCTA, n. sp. 



Holotype. — U.S.N.M. no. 931 12 (Field no. 498a) ; 31 mm standard 

 length ; Caroline station 87, open ocean north of Culebra Island, lati- 

 tude i9°i8'3o" N., longtitude 65°i6'oo" W., to latitude i9°i3'oo" N., 

 longitude 65°i6'oo" W., February 27, 1933, otter trawl, 950 fathoms 

 wire out. 



' Vidensk. Medcl. Dansk. naturh. Foren., vol. 70, p. 222, pi. 17, figs. 11, 12, 1919. 

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