40 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



The species is mature at a length of eigliteen inches. 



station Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 



3413 2' 34' N. 92° 06' W. 1360 fathoms 36° F. Globigeriiia ooze dk. sp. 



The first unquestionable mention of this species is that of Quoy and 

 Gaimard, 1824, in the Zoology of Freycinet's Voyage, I., 198, at the 

 end of their description of Sci/mnus Usjnnaius. " Un autre tres-petit 

 individu femelle, pris par nous au Bresil, et nomme Scymnus brasiliensis 

 jjar M. Cuviier, a a pen pres la forme du precedent • mais il se fait remar- 

 quer par la gro.sseur deinesuree de sa machoire inferieure, par sa gueule 

 plus rapprochee de I'extreniite de son mnseau, par la largeur plus grande 

 de ses nageoires dorsales, et par I'absence d'aiguillon aux ventrales. Les 

 deux lobes de la caudale sont aussi plus profondement divisees. Enfiii, 

 sa couleur est d'un brun plus clair, et Ton reinarque une large bande 

 d'un brun fonce sous la gorge." In 1840, F. D. Bennett notes the 

 occurrence of the genus in Lat. 2° 30' South, Lon. 163 West, a ten-inch 

 specimen captured in a tow-net at tlie surface, and again in " Lat. 55' 

 North, Lon. 110 West," an eighteen inch specimen. Bennett's longitude 

 is incorrect; it probably was 140° W. Miiller and Henle, 1841, give 

 Isle de France, St. Jago, and Rio de Janeiro as the localities of the 

 specimens examined by them. G. Bennett, 1860, reports on a five and 

 one half inch individual from Lat. 2' 15' South, Lon. 163° West. Kner, 

 1864, gives the locality " Australia " for a seven inch specimen studied 

 by himself Dumeril, 1865, records one from Mauritius of more than 

 nineteen and one-half inches, the largest yet recorded. Gunther, 1870, 

 had a ten inch specimen from the Soutli Pacific and a six inch specimen 

 from the Gulf of Guinea. Peters, 187G, had one from Lat. 14° 23' 07" 

 South, Lon. 118° 10' 03" East, in the Indian Ocean. The "Albatross" 

 collection adds a locality near the Galapagos Islands, station 3413, Lat. 

 2° 34' North, Lon. 92° 06' West. The depth given for this station is 

 1360 fathoms. In the same haul Bathytroctes and other undoubted deep 

 sea forms wore taken. The large eyes and the phosphorescence of Isistius 

 certainly would not be out of place at very great depths ; yet in view 

 of the fact that all of the captures previously noted were from the surface 

 or from depths much nearer to it than that reported by the "Albatross," 

 and of the fact also that the trawl was open on its way up, there 

 is still some uncertaintv as to whether this shark descends so far. 



