368 
Echiostoma barbatum (not LOWE) GOODE and BE.OJ, Bull. Efr&ox. Inst., 1879, p.23. 
JOHDAN and GILBERT, Bull. U.S.Hat. Mus., Mo.16, 1882, p.287 (part). - GOODE 
and BEAK, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p,109, pl*35, fig.130 (old Bahama Channel, 500 
o ° 
fathoms; N. 39 11 1 W. 72 8 1 , 636 fathoms; type of Hyper chor is tus tan neri \\ 
- PARR, Bull# Bingham Oceunogr# Collection, vol#3, art, 2, ^ec# 30, 1927, p.5o, 
o 0 
fig#31 (end of barbel) (K# 24 29 » W # 77 29 1 , 8000 feet; N. 24 11 * W# 
75 ° 37 1 , 800 feet; type of Hyperchoristus tanneri)* 
Echiostoma tanneri REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr# Rep,, No.6, 
March 10, 1930, p,117, fig,113 (ends of barbels) (southeast of Bermuda; 
(Cape Verde Islands; west of 
northeast of Lesser Antilles; mid Atlantic; west ofjs^t* Lucia; west of 
Jamaica; south of Cuba; north west of Cuba; between Florida and Cuba; be¬ 
tween Haiti and Cuba; near St, Croix; east of Cape Hatteras; north of 
Bermuda; 50 to 2000 meters), - NORMAN, Discovery Rep,, vol,2, 1930, p.314 
(S, 33 ° 50 * to 34 ° 13 f E. 16 ° 4 1 to 15 ° 49 1 , 850 to 950 meters). 
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Depth 6 1/2 to 8; head 5 3/4 to 5 4/5, width 2 l/8 to 2 l/4. Snout 3 3/4 
to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 4 3/4 to 4 4/5, 1 l/4 to 1 3/5 in snout, 2 
in interorbital; mi xillary extends 2 to 2 l/2 eye diameters behind eye, length 
1 l/lO to 1 l/8 in head; upper teeth with 3 pairs of large fangs, lower with 2 
of which first large pair largest of all teeth; barbel inserted before eye, 
reaches back to hind edge of gill opening; subterminal bulb large as pupil and 
terminal bulb much shorter, with 4 very short terminal filaments; interorbital 
2 3/4 to 3 in head from snout tip, bracydly convex though depressed widely medial- 
ly. Gill rakers 10 inconspicuous clusters of 2 or 3 very minute spinules on 
lower branch of first arch; gill filaments equal eye. 
Small, narrow, pale luminous body, long as eye close above upper maxillary 
