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or fan l/2 to 2/3 eye ; series of luminous dots running backwards from, between 
subocular and postocular organs; barbel with conspicuous oval or club-shaped 
bulb tittmanni# 
2 
d. Ventral photophores 16 between gill opening and ventral; postocular 
organ l/4 to 3/5 eye; series of luminous dots as in tittnani; barbel 
with long slightly thickened part g rimaldii . 
2 
c. Pectoral rays 14 to 17; postocular luminous organ about long as eye 
polydactylus. 
Aristomias grimaldii Zugmayer 
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Aristostomias grimaldii ZUGMAYER 5 Bull* Inst* C c eanogr, Moncao, o# 253, 1513, p*l 
1 « 
REGAN and TRMAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep., No.6, March 10, 1930, 
„ * — 
p,14l, pi.14, fig.2 (type; N. 5 ° to 35 ° ’ r . 51 ° to 82 c , 50 to 1500 met¬ 
ers). 
Depth 4 2/3 to 6; head 3 2/5 to 4. Snout 3 2/5 to 4 l/2; eye 5 to 6; 
barbel 1/3 to 3/5 of fish, ends in slight elongate swelling, often curved, prob¬ 
ably luminous only at terminal end. 
Subocular luminous organ 2/3 to nearly long as eye; postocular l/4 to 3/5 
of eye; series of small bluish luminous spots running backward from between 
subocular and postocular organs; group of similar spots below subocular organ 
and sometimes before eye. Lateral photophores 16 between gill- opening and vent¬ 
ral, first 4 oblique rest in 4 close linear groups of 2 to 4; 15 or 16 between 
ventral and anal, 1 or 2 close groups of 3 to 4 at beginning, generally 1 at 
end, rest spaced. Ventral series 5 -f 3 between isthmus and pectoral, 14 to 16 
between pectoral and ventral, in 5 close groups of 2 to 4, some clustered, 15 to 
