366 
Echiostoma barbatum (not LOT/E) GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol.5, 1364, 
_ ■ T ^ i rni ■! '•»' mm.^rn m 
p.4S7 (Madeira); Rep. Yoy. Challenger, vol.22, 1887, p.206, pi.,-3, - j-g.B 
(Madeira specimen). 
Depth 9; head 6 l/2, width 1 4/5. Snout 5 in head from snout tip; eye 
5 l/4, subequal with snout, equals interorbital; maxillary extends 2 l/2 eye 
diameters behind eye, length 1 l/lO in head; premaxillary with 6 fangs followed 
by 22 small oblique teeth on maxillary; pair of teeth on vomer; series of 8 
teeth on each palatine; barbel 2 in head, pigmented tliroughout, with slightly 
swollen bulb and slender tapering terminal appendage with double series of 7 
long tapering filaments on stem below bulb; interorbital 4 l/2 in head, low. 
Postocular luminous organ 4 in head. Lateral photophores 25 between gill 
opening and ventral, 17 between ventral and anal; ventral series 8+2 between 
isthmus and pectoral, 26 between pectoral and ventral, 17 between ventral and 
anal, 11 between anal and caudal. 
D. 14, fin height 2 l/2 in total head length; A. 17, fin height 3 1/3; 
caudal 2, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 5; pectoral 1-3, length 2 
2/3 in body without caudalj ventral equals head, r&.ys 8# 
Length 215 mm. total. (G-Unther, Regan and Trewavas.) 
Madeira. 
Echiostoma ctenob arba Parr 
Echiostoma ctenobarba PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol.3, art.2, 
Dec.30, 1927$. p.55, figs. 32 and 33 (end of barbel). H. 23 ° 55 ’ . 77 
9 », 4000 to 7000 feet. - REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. 
Rep*, No,6, 
March 10, 1930, p.117 (compiled). 
