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Depth 10 2/5; head 7 7/8. Snout 3 l /8 in head; eye 5 l/ 3 , 2 in snout; 
maxillary extends 2 l/2 eye diameters behind eye, length 1 l/lO in head; barbel 
1 l/3 in body without caudal, black bodies inside at intervals towards end re¬ 
sembling string of beads, basal part with anterior series of black dots, slight 
luminovis swelling little beyond branches; small terminal bulb with several fil- 
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aments with bead like swellings 5 branches at first fifth of barbel, median very 
short, with pair of filamentous branches, ends in bulb with filament and laterals 
more than 3 times as long, slender, tapering, end in minute bulbs; interorbital 
low* 
Lateral photophores 28 between gill opening and ventral, 14 between ventral 
and anal; ventral series 7 between isthmus and pectoral, 27 between pectoral and 
ventral, 14 between ventral and anal, 23 between anal and caudal. 
D, 22 to 25, fin height 5 in head; A* 39 or 40, fin height 2 4/5; caudal 
2 l/3; least fippth of caudal peduncle 5 l/4; pectoral 1 l/5, 1 ray; ventral 
rays 7, fin 7 in body without caudal. 
Length 230 mm. without caudal. (Gilchrist, Regan and Trew&vas*) 
Atlantic, South Africa# 
Eustomias fissib a rbis (Pappenheim) 
it 
iTeostomias fissibar bis PAPPENHEIM, Deutsche Sudpolar Exped., vol.15, pt.2, 1914, 
p.175, text figs. 4 - 5# N* 24 41 * W# 32 0 21 f , 20 meters, north west of 
Gape Verde Islands. 
Eustomias fissibarbis PARR, Bull* Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol*3, art.2, Dec* 
30, 1927, p.81 (compiled). - REGAIN and TREVSTAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. 
Rep., No. 6 , March 10, 1930, p.103, figs. 94 (ends of barbels) 95 a (dentition) 
(N. 24 ° 34 ' W. 28 0 4 ’; H. 23 0 40 * W. 43 ° 26 »; Caribbean S ea north 
of St. Croix N. 17 ° 58. 5 ’ W. 64 ° 41 1 ; off St. Croix N. 17 ° 43 ’ W. 
