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axis narrow, with series of small white bodies, that on hind side of axis broad¬ 
er, with terminal filament, large white oval body causes axis to curve, with 
series of smaller ones basal* 
Postorbital lumino\is organ long as eye* Lateral photophores 26 to 28 between 
isthmus and ventral, 12 or 13 between ventral and anal* Ventral series with 
8 -f 2 between isthmus and pectoral, 27 to 29 between pectoral and ventral, 13 
between ventral and anal, 10 between anal and caudal* 
D* 14 to 16; A. 18 or 19; pectoral rays 5; ventral rays 7* 
Length 60 mm. without caudal* (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Atlantic, Caribbean Sea* 
Melanostomias melanops Brauer 
Melan ostomias melanops BRAUER, Zool* Anseiger, vol*25, No*6S8, 1902, p.284* 
West coast of Sumatra, in 1024 meters; Deutscb. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia, vol# 
/ o 
15, Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, p*53, text fig* 15, pi.3, figs.4 - 5 (IT. Lat# 5 
23 f 2 n E* Long* 94 ° 48 1 1 " in 1024 meters). - WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes 
Indo Austral* Archipelago, vol.2, 1913, p.114, fig.41 (copied). - PARR, Bull# 
Bingham Oceanogr* Collection, vol*3, art*2, December 30, 1927, p.42 (not 
figure or materials; reference). - RECAR and TRE7fA7AS, Danish Dana Exped* 
Oceanogr. Rep., Uo*6, March 10, 1930, p*114, fig.110 - b (end of barbel) 
(Caribbean ne-r Martinique N# 14 ° 38 T 7J# 61 0 16 1000 meters). 
Depth 7 ?/5 to 8 7/8; head 6 l/3 to 6 2 / 5 , 'width 2 to 2 l/8. snout 4 l/4 to 
4 2/5 in head from snout tip; eye 5 3/4 to 6 l/2, 1 3/5 in snout, 2 in inter¬ 
orbital; maxillary reaches preoperele ridge, length 1 l/lO to 1 l/8 in head I 
from snout tip; barbel 2 to 2 l/lO times head length, reaches 1 9/l0 to 2 2/5 to 
