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Depth 6 l/5; head 6 s/4* Snout 4 1/5 in head; eye 6,1 1/4 in snout; max¬ 
illary extends 2 eye diameters behind eye, length 11/6 in head; 9 rather small 
fangs in each premaxillary, 5 normal erect teeth in each maxillary follov/ed by 
minute oblique denticles: 8 fangs in each limb of lower f iaw, foliov/ed by series 
of 12 pairs of very small teeth; pair of fangs on vomer; series of 12 to 15 
teeth on each palatine; barbel 1 0/4 in head, tapering and slender terminally 
with pair of filaments with swollen ends, basally from these stem with 10 pairs 
of short fleshy filaments; interorbital low* 
Postocular luminous organ nearly twice eye diameter or 2 l/4 in head* Latera 
pi otophores 25 between gill opening and ventral, 17 between ventral and anal, 12 
between anal and caudal; ventral series 8-2 between isthmus and pectoral, 26 
betvreen pectoral and ventral, 17 between ventral and anal* 
D # 12, fin height 2 in head; A* 14, fin height 2 3/4; caudal 1 2-/3, forked, 
lower lobe longer; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 2/3; pectoral rays 1-3, 
length 2 4/5 in body v/ithout caudal; ventral long as head, rays 8* 
Length 285 mm* without caudal* (Parr*) 
Atlantic* 
Echiostoma tanneri (Gill) 
Hyperchoristus tanneri GILL, "roc* U.S.Hat* Mus*, vol*6, 1883 (1884), p*256* N* 
40 ° 26 » 40 W. 66 ° 58 956 fathoms. 
Echiostomy, tanneri PEGA2T and TKEEAVAS, Danish Dana 
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March 10^ 1930, p*117, fig*113 (ends of barbels) southeast of Bermuda; north 
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St. Lticia; west of Jamaica; south of Cuba; north west of Cuba;/between 
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Florida and CuBaj between Haiti and Cuba; near St. Croix; east of Cape 
