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Aristoistomias sc inti llans (Gilbert) 
Zastomias scintillans GILBERT, Proc. IT,S.Mat. Hus., v<■•1.48, 1915, p.322, pi.15, 
fig.4. Monterey Bay, California, 389 to 551 fathoms. 
(?) Aris tostomias scintillans PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol.3, 
art.2, 1927, p.S6, fig.11 (part; type; N. 25 ° 39 f T7. 76 ° 41 ', 7000 
feet;). - REGAN and TRE7VAVAS, Danish Dana Bxped. Ooeanogr. Rep., Mo.6, 
March 10, 1930, p.138 (note). 
Depth 5 l/2; head 3 7/8, width 3. Snout 4 in head; eye 5, 1 l/2 in sno”t, 
1 3/5 in interorbital; maxillary extends 3 eye diameters behind eye, length 
1 l/lO in head; pair of canines oxvtside premaxi Varies, when mouth closes in 
deeper grooves or sockets beneath posterior nostrils, posteriorly 5 "airs of 
shorter canines of about equal length; maxillary with minute retrorse teeth; 
•mandible with pair of strong front canines; when mouth closes lie in shallow 
grooves in front surfaces of snout and upper jaw; palatine teeth small, uni¬ 
serial; barbel inserted below eye, half combined head and body to caudal base, 
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reaches beyond ventral base, with smooth clavate terminus; interorbital 4 2/z 
in head, convex. No gill rakers; gill filaments 1 l/2 in eye. 
Head, body and fins with numerous, minute luminous bodies, many arranged in 
vertical intersegmental lines. Narrow curved luminous body on infraorbital and 
another larger and ovoid below and behind eye. Lateral row of photophores low, 
with occasional groups of 4 or 5 closely crowded spots, widely spaced; ventral 
series low, not made out. 
D. 21, fin height 2 7/8 (?)in head; A # 27, fin height 3 (?); caudal 1 2/5, 
damaged, forked (?); pectoral 1 4/5 in head, rays 1^-3, all free filaments; 
ventral 1 4/5, rays 4 to 6; least depth oi caudal pedunc3.e 1 l/in cr e # 
