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Bathytroctes macr olepi s (not Gunther ) GOODE and BEAK; Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 
pi.12, fig.44 (wrongly transposed). 
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D epth 5; head 3 3/5, width 3. Snout 3 9/l0 in head from.snout tip; eye 
3 l/lO, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 7/8 in eye, 
expansion 2 l/4 in eye, length 2 in head from snout tip; lower jaw slightly 
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protrudes; teeth feeble, minute* uniserial, in jaws, on vomer and palatines; 
interorbital 6 3/4, low. Gill rakers 11 + 24, lanceolate, long* 
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Scales 70 in lateral line; 9 above, 11 below, -ins scaleless. 
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D. Ill, 12, first branched ray 2 l/"c> in total head length; A. Ill , 15, 
first branched ray 1 9/l0, fin origin near last fourth of dorsal fin base; 
caudal 1 3/5, well emarginate, rudimentary rays numerous and prominent, least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 2/5; pectoral 1 2/3; ventral 2 l/5. 
Uniform black, 255 mm, (Gflnther) 
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Atlantic and Indian (?) Oceans# 
NEMABATHYTROCTES new subgenus 
Type - Bat hy troctes longifill s Brauer 
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Head very large, 2 2/5 to caudal. Maxillary reaches slightly behind eye 
Scales 100. D orsa ]_ origin slightly before anal origin. Caudal lobes end in 
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long points. Pectoral'with long filamentous ray reaching caudal • 
Diagnosis. Known by its extended caudal and pectoral filamentous rays. 
(rifua* ^ rea< ^J Bathytroctes.) 
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Bathytroctes longifilis Brauer 
Bathytroctes longifilis BRAUER, Zool. Anzeiger, vol.25. Ho.668, 1902, p. 277. 
