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D# 15, fin origin opposite anal origin, fin height 4 : in Total head 
length; A. 17, fin height 4 2/3; caudal 2 l/2, deeply forked; 
of caudal peduncle 5; pectoral 6 i/4; ventral c. 
Violaceous black, fins brownish. Length 175 m. (Zugmayer.) 
Eastern Atlantic• 
iSGiiEPCCEPHAIIJS new sub genu 8 . 
Type - Asq;;a.~io eph8 1 ongnsni ne^v species* 
Body strongly compressed, with short caudal peduncle. Head 3/7 body 
length to caudal base. Snout obtuse, conic. Mouth large, lower jaw included 
within upper. Preopercle rather close behind eye and end of maxillary. Gill 
opening extends forward opposite hind end of maxillary where membrane forms 
broad free fold across isthmus. Branohiostegals 4. Body covered with 
rather close set, deeply imbedded, elongate, thin scales. Head largely s.aly 
or at least large imbedded cycloid scales on cheeks, postocular, cranium 
and opercles. Dorsal and anal inserted little before last third in length 
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without caudal. 
Diagnosis . Differs from subgenus Asquamioeps as set forth m the pre¬ 
ceding ’’analysis of species." 
(M^rnc, large; Alepocephalus ; with reference to the very large head.) 
