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Alepooephalus tenebrosu s Gilbert 
Alepocephalus tenebrosus GILBERT,;-: Proo. TJ.S.N.M. , vol. 14, 1891, p, 545, 
Albatross 2839, 2923, 2936 and 2980, 359 to 822 fathoms, Santa Barbara 
Channel. - GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p. 510 (reference), 
- JORDAN and EVEBMAM, Bull. U.S.Nat. Ifcis.. No.47, pt.l, 1896, p,453 
(compiled). - TOWNSEND and NICHOLS, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, New 
York, vol.52, art.l, May 16, 1925, p,8, pi.2, fig.l, southwest of Santa 
q w 
Barbara Islands 33 to 23 ° off Cape San Lucas, Lower California, 630 
% * 
to 640 fathoms. 
Depth 5 l/2 to 6; head 2 7/8 to 3 l/5, width 3. Snout 3 l/5 to 3 l/4 
in head ^measured to eye; orbit 3 l/2 to 4 l/4; eye 4 l/2 to 5 l/5. 1 l/2 
in snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches to or l/3 in eye with 
age, expansion 2 tc 2 l/5, length 2 2/5 to 3 l/5 in head; end of mandible 
with slight terminal symphyseal denticle or spur; interorbital 6 to 6 3/5, 
low, with wide concavity extending to occiput, Gill rakers 8 ^16, lanceolate, 
1 l/4 in eye; gill filaments 3/4 gill rakers. 
Scales 85 to. 90 counted along and close above lateral line to caudal 
base; 12 or 13 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below, 53 to 58 predorsal 
forward to occiput. Scales very caducous, usually all fallen • 
D, 17 or 18, rays mostly broken, fin height 3 3/4 in head, origin in 
young neare? head than caudal base, with age much nearer caudal base; A, 
17 to 19, rays mostly broken, fin height 3 in head, opposite dorsal origin 
in young to more posterior with age; caudal damaged, evidently forked, 
rudimentary rays 16 above or below, more developed in young when extended 
well forward towards dorsal and anal, little conspicuous with age; least 
