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brown. Fins transparent gray. Length 258 mm. (Alcock.) 
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Indian and Pacific Oceans. 
Bathytroctes grimaldi Zugmayer 
a, 
Bathytroctes grimaldi ZUGMAYER, Bull. Inst. 0c4nogr. Monaco, Ho. 193, Jan. 20, 
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1911, p.l. N. 37 38 ’ ¥. 10 53 ’, 4900 meters, off Portugal; 
Res. Camp. Sci. Monaco, vol.35, 1911, p.6, pl.l, fig.2 (type). 
Depth 4 3/4; head 3 l/3. Snout 4 in head from snout tip; eye 3 1/8, 
greater than snout; maxillary reaches 3/4 in eye, expansion 2 in eye, length 
t 
1 9/l0 in head from snout tip; mandible slightly protrudes, teeth very small, 
uniserial, on premaxillaries, maxillaries and dentaries, and group anteriorly 
on palatines; interorbital low. 
Scales 75 in lateral line; 8 above, 8 below. Caudal base scaly. 
D. 13, origin slightly nearer ventral than anal origin, first ray 2 4/5 
in total head length; A. 11, origin opposite middle of dorsal base, fin 
heigth 3 2/3; caudal 1 7/8, well forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; 
M V 
pectoral 1 3/4, reaches ventral; ventral 1 9/l0. 
Black, head violet black. Length 165 mm. (Zugmayer.) 
Eastern Atlantic. 
Bathytroct es me lanocephal us Vaillant 
Bathy tro ctes melanocephalus V AILLAHT, Exp6d.Sci. Travailleur et Talisman, 
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Poiss., 1888, p. 155, pi.11, figs.3, a - b. Coasts of Morocco, 2200 
Banc d’ Arguin, 1617 meters. 
to 2600 meters; coasts of Soudan, 1435 metersC00DE and BEAU, 
( Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.43 (compiled;. 
Depth 5 l/5; head 2 7/8. Snout 3 in head from snout tip; eye 6, 
