405 
Blackish brown, light brown on areas where skin torn away. Iris neutral 
dusky. Fins largely whitish, dorsal and anal with dark brown anteriorly. 
Pacific Ocean. 
75808 TJ.S.N.M. Monterey Bay, California. Albatross Station 4540. 
Length 72 ram. Type of Zasto mias scintill a ns . 
Aristostomias tittmanni Welsh 
Aristostomias tittmanni WELSH, Pnoc. TJ.S.N&t. Mus., vol.62, art.3, 1923, P.3, 
fig.2. From 115 miles east of Cape Hatteras, 100 meters. - REGAN and TRE- 
s , 
WAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Oceanogr. Rep.,No.6, March 10, 1930, p.140, figs. 
135 and 136 (N. 8 ° to 37 ° W. 25 ° to 83 °, 40 to 2000 meters). 
Depth 6 l/2j head 3 l/5, width 4. Snout 3 l/4 in head; eye 5 l/2, 1 2/3 
in snout, 1 l/5 in interorbital; maxillary extends 23/4 eye diameters behind 
eye, length but slightly less then head; teeth unequal, upper with 2 pairs of 
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£long, hollow, terminally barbed canines, followed by 5 pairs of much smaller 
terminally recurved teeth, then 12 pairs of straight recumbent teeth; lower 
teeth with 2 pairs of large and 5 pairs of smaller blade like terminally barbed 
teeth, first 2 pairs fitting in grooves on side of snout where mouth closes; 
palatines with 4 small teeth each side; tongue with 2 groups of strong retrorse 
teeth; barbel inserted behind eye, 1 3/4 in combined head and body to caudal 
base, simple, filamentous, ends in smooth, ovoid knob; interorbital 4, convex. 
No gill rakers. 
White ovoid luminous body in slit like socket close behind and below eye. 
Lateral photophores in 6 linear groups from pectoral to ventral, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 
4 then group of 3 and 8 single more or less equidistant to vertical of anal 
