375 
D. 15 to 17; A. 17 to 21; pectoral with 2 short rays; ventral rays 7. 
Length 31 iron* without caudal* (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Atlantic• 
Pho to nectes brauer i (Zugmayer) 
Melanostomias brauer i ZUGMAYER, Bull* Inst* Oceanogr. Monaco, No.253, 1913, p*3* 
- PARR, Bull* Bingham Oceanogr* Collection, vol*3, art*2, B©o # 30, 1927, p.42 
(compiled). Photonectes braueri REGAN and TREWAVAS, Danish Dana ^xped. 
Oce'anogr* Rep., No.6, March 10, 1930, p.121, pi.12, fig.l, text fig. 115 -d 
(end of barbel) (type). 
Depth 8; head 7 2/3* £ye 4 l/3 in head; maxillary with 9 erect and 10 
oblique teeth; 2 pairs of teeth on vomer; 3 teeth on each palatine; barbel 1/5 
« 
of head, with stout black stem and small white bulb, not thicker than stem, 
bearing minute terminal knob* 
Bostoeular luminous organ equals eye. Lateral photophores 20 between gill 
opening and ventral, 14 between ventral and anal* Ventral series 8 2 between 
isthmus and pectoral, 22 between pectoral and ventral, 15 between ventral and 
anal, 10 between anal and caudal* 
D* 18; A* 20; pectoral with 2 short rays; ventral rays 7. 
Length 115 mm* without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Eastern Atlantic* 
Photonectes achirus Regan and Trewavas 
Photonectes achirus REGAN and TRE7/AYAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep., No.6, 
o o 
March 10, 1930, p.122, fig.116 -a (end of barbel). N. 20 26 1 Tf. 61 3 T ; 
o n 
l east of Barbuda N. 17 41 1 c. 60 58 1 ; Caribbean Sea near Martinique 
