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135 fathoms* - BARNARD, Ann* South African Mus*, vol*21, pt*l, June 1925, 
p.142 (type)* - PARR, Bull* Bingham Oce nogr* Collection, vol*3, art*2, Dec¬ 
ember 30, 1927, p*42 (compiled)* - REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. 
Oceanogr* Rep., No*6, March 10, 1930, p*lll (compiled * 
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Depth 7; head 7* ^e 6 in head; barbel 2, slender, ending in -white ovate 
bulb with rounded end* 
Postocular luminous organ equals eye. Lateral series of photophores 27 be- 
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tween gill opening and ventral, 13 between ventral and anal* Ventral series 63 
between isthmus and caudal. 
D # 10; A* 17; pectoral rays 5; ventral rays 7. 
Length 220 ram* (Regan and frewavas.) 
South Africa* 
Me1anosto mias vierecki new species 
Depth 8 3/4; head 6 2 / 3 , width 2 l/3. %iout 5 in head from snout tip; eye 
5, little greater than snout seen in profile, 1 2/3 in interorbital; maxillary 
extends 3 eye diameters behind eye, length 1 l/8 in head from snout tip; 9 teeth 
on each premaxillary, with third and sixth pairs longest; 4 moderate teeth at 
front of maxillary, graduated to posterior; 10 teeth in each mandibular ramus, 
with third and fifth left, fourth and sixth right, largest; 2 depressible 
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vomerine and 3 or 4 palatine teeth; 3 pairs of small recurved teeth on tongue; 
barbel 1 2/5 in head, ends in 3 bulbs of which terminal largest and with small 
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short filament extended around one side from more advanced of 2 small subterminal 
bulbs; interorbital 3 l/2, low, depressed medially. Gill rakers as 3 ^ 7 short 
