ROSE FISH. 
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The above description and the appended figure are 
derived from Collett’s work on the deep-sea fishes 
taken by the Norwegian Arctic Expedition. Only one 
specimen of this species is as yet known. It was taken 
on the 16th July, 1878, at a depth of 1,280 fathoms, 465 
board, although the hauling of the trawl had taken se- 
veral hours; and it was kept alive for some time, but 
appeared to lie extremely sluggish in its movements. 
The transparency of the body rendered the internal 
organs visible, so that in the living fish one could see 
A" 'ON 
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Fig. 142. 
Rhocliehthys regina , <p, 2 / 3 of the natural size. From a depth of 1,280 
perature of — 1’4° Celsius), 465 kilom. N. E. of Jan Mayen I., 
fathoms, on a clayey bottom ( Biloculina-chxy with a tem- 
19th July, 1878. After Collett. 
kilometres north east of Jan Mayen Island, about mid- 
way between this island, Norwegian Finmark, and Bear 
Island. The bottom at this depth consisted of Bilocu- 
lina- clay, and the bottom temperature was — 1 '4° Cel- 
sius. The fish was still alive when it was drawn on 
the spinal column, the several divisions of the brain, 
the labyrinth, the gills, and most of the viscera. In 
the stomach were found still determinable remains of 
three crustaceans, Bythocaris leucopis, Pseudomysis 
abyssi, and a Iiyperioid. 
Subamily FIERASFIN M\ 
No ventral fins. Body Eel-like , with pointed tail. 
“Fishermen say that of this sea-cucumber (Cazzo | red, ribbon-like fishes which are called Cipollefi wrote 
reale — Holothuria tubulosa) are generated the oblong, | Columna 6 at the beginning of the 17th century. So 
a Gthr, Cat. Brit. Mas., Fish., vol. IV, p. 370. 
b De aquatilibas aliisque nonnullis animalibus, Romae 1616, p. XXXVII. 
