71 
2 in snout; maxillary reaches slightly beyond eye, expansion 1 2.5 in eye, 
length 1 4/5 in head from snout tip; premaxillary teeth elongate, fine, 
conic, uniserial; opercle with 7 radiating ridges above extended down post¬ 
eriorly. 
Scales 105 in lateral line; tubes 64 in lateral line; 13 above, 10 
below to anal. 
D. 14, fin heigth 4 7/8 in total head, fin base entirely before anal 
origin; A.ll, fin height 4 l/2; caudal 1 4/5. slightly emarginate; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 3/4; pectoral 4 4/5; ventral 4 4/5. 
JL 
Grayish green. Head deep blue black. Iris blue gray, pupil black. 
Length 108 mm. (Vaillant.) 
Eastern Atlantic. 
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Bathytroctes alveatus Garman 
Bathytroctes alveatus GJLPJiAB* Mem# Mus# Comp# Zool#, vol#24, 1899, p*287, 
mt i i #■» > — ■ »■>■>■■■ #i a—111 m m on <■ n i mm mm 1 W i i 
pl>58, fig.l, N. 3 ° 9 ’ W. 82 ° 8 *, 1132 fathoms; S. 0 0 36 * 
It 86 46*! , 1 1322 fathoms. Gulf of Panama. 
Depth 5; head 2 3/4. Snout to eye 2 9/l0 in head from snout tip; 
orbit 5 l/6; eye .7, 2 2/5 in snout, wide as interorbital; maxillary reaches 
slightly behind orbit, expansion equals eye, length 1 4/5 in head from snout 
tip; teeth small, rather strong, subconic, hooked, uniserial in premaxillaries, 
maxillaries, dentaries and palatines, 1 to 3 fang like teeth each side of 
interorbital low. Gill rakers 5 f 16, slender, 3/4 eye. 
Scales 70 in lateral line; 10 above, 10 below. 
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