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openings livid-Tgray blue*:/ Fins.all dusky* 
22468 U.S.N.M* Gloucester Donation Wo* 305. Christian Johnson. 
Schooner "William Thompson", In 200 fathoms. Figured by Goode and 
Bean. 
38251 U.S.N.M. Grand Banks. November 1886. A Johnson., Length 
947 mm. Evidently type. 
Subgenus ERICARA Gill and Townsend. 
> Alepocephalus agassizii Goode and Bean, 
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Alepocephalus agassizii GOODE and BEAN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol.10,,1882, 
p.218, N. 38 0 18 » 40 " W. 73 ° 18 ' 10 ”, 922 fathoms. - GUNTHER, 
Rep* Voy. Challenger, vol.22, 1887, p.223 (Compiled). - GOODE and BEAN, 
Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.37, pi.13, fig.45 (N. 15 to 41 W. 63 0 to 
74 ° , 538 to 1106 fathoms). - JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U.S. Nat. 
Mus., No.47, pt.l, 1896, p.453 (compiled). 
BE 
Depth 4 3/5 to 6 l/4 j head 2 3/4 to 2 7/8, width 2 3/5 to 2 7/8. 
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Snout 3 l/3 to 4 in head; orbit 4 to 4 l/2, eye 5 to 6, 1 l/5 to 1 3/5 in 
snout, subequal to equal to interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/3 to 3/4 in 
eye, expansion 1 l/2 to 2 3/4 in eye, length 2 l/2 to 2 3/5 in head; inter¬ 
orbital 5 l/6 to 6 l/5, nearly level or with broad low ridge over each eye 
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between which broad groove gradually broader and deeper to occiput. Gill 
rakers 9 f 19, lanceolate, 1 7/8 in eye; gill filaments 3/4 gill rakers. 
Scales 88 to 90 in lateral line to caudal base; 14 above, 14 or 15 
below, about 70 predorsal. Scales present on bases of vertical fins. Scales 
this, elongate, deeply imbedded. Scales with circuli fine, numerous, mostly 
