266 
pawnee i 
3 
d. TRICIIOCHIRTTS. Pectoral of 2 separate rays inserted close together. 
1 
j_. Ventral rays 11 to 13 
2 
j. Ventral rays 9 or 10 melas. 
3 
,j. Ventral rays 6 to 8 chironcma. 
4 
d. DAOTHLOSTOMIAS. Pectoral single ray; ventral rays 4 or 5 
filifer. 
B athophilu s brevis Regan and Trewavas 
Bathophilus brevis REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep., No.6, 
3March 10, 1930, p.66, pi.3, fig.l. N. 13 ° 35 ’ W. 30 ° 11 •j off French 
Guiana N. 5 ° 06 ' W. 51 ° 35 ’; N. 34 ° 40 ’ W. 33 ° 16 ’ j N. 30 ° 53 ' W. 
0 0 n 
54 07 1 j west of Bermudas N. 33 15 * W. 68 20 ’j 400 to 1000 meters. 
Depth 2l/4 to 2 3/4, ovate, compressed; head 2 2/5 to 3* Snout 3 3/4 in j 
head; eye 8 l/3, 2 l/4 in snout; maxillary extends 4 3/4 eye diameters behind 
eye; length 1 1/8 in head; interorbital moderately high* 
Post ocular luminous organ, well separated from eye close above maxillary mid- 
anterior ly or below* Luminous patch 
way in head length, also small luminous patch/on middle of side between dorsal 
I \ 
and anal fin origins* b r o serial photophores* 
P* 10 or 11, seventh ray 1 7/8 in head; A* 9 or 10, sixth ray 2 l/lO; 
caudal 1 l/4, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 5; pectoral rays 2 ^ 9 to 
11, 2 2/3 in body without caudal; ventral 2 3/5, rays 11 to 14, inserted much 
nearer dorsal than ventral profile, equidistant between snout tip and dorsal 
origin* length 44 mm* to caudal base* (Regan and Trewavas*) 
Atlantic Ocean* 
r 
Bathoph ilus n ire riiaus Giglioli 
