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Subgenus CONOCARA Goode and Bean 
Alepoc eph alus macropterus Yaillant 
Alepooephalus macropterus VAILLANT, ExpSd. Sci. Travailleur et Talisman. 
Poiss., 1888, p.150, pl f ll, figs. 2 a-c. Coast of Morocco, 2075 to 
2115 meters; Canaries, 865 meters; coasts of Soudan, 882 to 1435 
meters; Banc d* Arguin, 1550 meters. 
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Conocara macroptera GOODE and BEAM, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.39, pi.12, fig. 
43 (compiled). - JORDAN and EVERMA1W, Bull. U.S.Nat. Mas., No.47, pt. 
1. 1896, p.457 (compiled). - MURRAY and HJORT, Depths of the Ocean, 
1912, p.394, fig.263 (off Morocco, 2300 meters). - ROTJLE, Res. Camp. 
Sci. Monaco, vol.52, 1919, p.5 (south of Pico, 1550 meters). 
Depth 7 3/5; head 3 l/4, width 2 3/4. Snout measured to eye 2 3/4 
in head; orbit 3; eye 4 l/3, 1 l/2 in snout, 1 l/4 in interorbital; max¬ 
illary reaches orbit, expansion 2 l/4 in eye, length 2 7/8 in head; inter¬ 
orbital 3 l/2, low, with broad median depression, widening at occiput. Gill 
rakers 1 +*17, lanceolate, rather weakly spinescent, 3 l/2 in eye, 3 times 
gill filaments. 
Scales about 190 in lateral line to caudal base; tubes about 55 (?) 
in lateral line to caudal base; 22 scales above, 22 below, about 138 pre¬ 
dorsal forward to occiput. Dorsal, anal and caudal bases scaly. Scales 
thin, simple, adherent about fore part of body. Scales cycloid, though without 
striae; circuli obsolete, imperfectly concentric. 
D. V, 15, I, fin height 4 l/4 in head, fin origin over middle of anal 
base; A. 36, I, rays all branched, fin height 4 3/4, fin origin midway be- 
