3Z1 
Length 58 mm# (Norman*) 
Atlantic* 
Eustcmias s ohiffi Beebe 
E usto mias schiffi^ BEEBE, Zoologica H*Y. Zool. Soc*, vol*13, ^o*4, March 1932, 
p.E4* Six miles south of Nonsuch Island, Bermuda, 600 fathoms* 
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Depth 12 2/3; head 8* Snout 5 2/5 in head; eye 5 l/3, impinging on tipper 
profile; premaxillary teeth 14 each side, larger and shorter pair close together 
at snout tip, interspace then large pair of fangs, rest smaller and irregular, 
maxillary 18, very small, oblique; below median symphyseal pair*, then very large 
pair followed by 15 teeth; barbel half of body without caudal, long slender 
stem with thin core of thickly specked black chromatophores, antero-posteriorly 
stem expands into gradually widening transparent area, then into retort-shaped 
btxlb pale brown on front or lower surface; terminal neck of retort gives off 
15 thread like tentacles and just before beginning of neck of Retort thick finger 
like tentacle arises from upper or hind side ending abruptly; from each side of 
same region of retort branched processes arise like large terminal one, 1 large 
one on left, 3 lesser on right which break in turn to 3 to 8 elongate transparent 
threads* 
Postorbital luminous body large* Lateral photophores 34 between pectoral and 
ventral, 15 from ventral; ventral series 8 between isthmus and pectoral, 32 be¬ 
tween pectoral and ventral, 15 between ventral and anal, 18 between anal and 
caudal* 
D* 23; A* 37; pectoral rays 2; ventral rays 7* 
Black* Length 115 mm* without caudal* (Beebe*) 
Bermuda• 
