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medially* Gill rakers as 10 small clusters of several very small spinules; 
gill filaments slightly greater than eye* 
Rather large triangular huminous body close along maxillary above and below 
eye posteriorly, long as eye; small photophore close to middle of lower eye 
lateral series oi photophores 21 between pectoral and ventral, 10 between 
ventral ^nd anal, 14 oetween iront oi anal and caudal; lower or ventral series 
d on is chmus, unen 21 to ventrals, 10 between ventral and anal and 2 along front 
anal base* 
- u • i height 4 2/5 in total head; A* 18, fin height 4, fin origin op¬ 
posite dorsal origin; caudal 2, damaged, apparently forked (?); least depth of 
caudal peduncle 1 1/3 in eye; pectoral rays 5, very filamentous, 2 l/5 in total 
head length; ventral 2 3/5, rays 8, fin origin same distance before anal origin 
latter is before caudal base. 
Brown, most all lower surface blackish brown. Iris neutral slate. Luminous 
organ above maxillary pile brownish white. Fin rays all whitish. 
Di agnosis , distinguished by its short simple barbel, apparently without any 
white luminous bodies. It further differs from most species in the posterior in¬ 
sertion of the ventrals. 
T ype “ No. 22364 U.S.N.M. II. 44 ° W. 52 0 . Schooner 
Seth Stoclcbridge. Length 221 mm. As Echiostoma barbatum. 
(For D r. ~dgar Mearns, an ardent naturalist and student of Philippine Zool¬ 
ogy, who collected fishes for the U.S.National Museum.) 
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Melanostomiasniger Gilchrist and V 0 n B 0 nde 
Mela nosto mias niger GILCHRIST and VON BONDE, Fisher. Marine Biolog. Surv. S ou th 
Africa, Report No.3, 1922 (1924), N 0 .7, p.6, pi.2, fig. 2 . Off Table Bay, i n 
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