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jfelagos tamias mar garit ifer Regan and T rewavas 
J^elanostomias marjaritifer REGAK and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Expod. Oceunogr. Rep., 
"°* Q * !aroh 10 » 19S0, p.115, fig.110 -a (end of barbel). N. 20 0 50 » TV. 
66 ° 30 '* 200 meters,* Caribbean Sea west of Jamaica N. 18 ° 22 » W. 78 °, 
300 meters* 
Depth nearly 10; head 6 l/2 to 7 l/ 4 . %e 5 l/2 in head; barbel 2 to 2 l/ 4 
length of head, implemented except at base, few dots on posterior side, minute 
spot at tip 0.1 axis; terminally small compressed translucent expansion anterior¬ 
ly and broad one posteriorly, including basally large white oval body bending 
axis forward; no filament. 
Posoorbital luminous organ long as eye. Lateral photophores 27 between gill 
opening and ventral, 13 between ventral and anal. Ventral series 8 +2 between 
isthmus and pectoral, 27 or 28 between pectoral and ventral, 13 or 14 between 
ventral and anal, 10 between anal and caudal. 
or IS; A. 18; pectoral rays 5; ventral rays 7. 
Length 80 mm. without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Western Atlantic, Caribbean Sea. 
; ' e lanostom ias melanopogon Regan and Trewavas 
stoidas melanogogon BEGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep., 
1;0,6 » March 10 > 1930 > P.115, fig.Ill - a (end of barbel). N. 27 ° 28 * W. 
' 29 '»* 300 meters; N. 24 ° 5 • W. 74 ° 36 *, 1200 to 1500 meters; N. 2i 
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47 1 W. 47 11 ', 110 meters. 
( ? ) MeLmostomias melanops (not BRAUER) PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, 
vc 1.3, art.2 , D ec.30, 1927, p.42 (N. 25 56 * W. 77 0 37 * , 5000 feet). 
