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b. Eye 3 3/4 to 4 socialis. 
2~ . . ' . f 
a. XENODERMICETHfS• Depth 6 5/4; head 5 l/4; lateral line present; D. 34, 
A« 32, nodulosus . 
Xenoderm ichthys copei (Gill) 
Aleposomus copei GILL, American Naturalist, vol.18, 1884, p.433. Gulf Stream.- 
GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.47, pi.14, fig.51 (type from N» 37 
° 12 1 20 « W. 69 ° 39 *, 2949 fathoms). - JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U.S. 
Nat. Mas., No.47, pt.l, 1896, p.4-59 (compiled). 
Depth 5 2/3; head 3 2/5, width 3 l/5. Snout from snout tip to eye 4 in 
head; orbit 2 l/4; eye 3 l/8, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary 
reaches l/2 in eye, expansion 2 l/4 In eye, length 2 2/5 in head; interorbital 
4 in eye, very narrow, concave; cpercle with 2 radiating keels. Dill rakers 
9 f 19, lanceolate, l/2 of eye, 4 times gill filaments. 
No scales, ^ower half of body including head and anal fin, with scattered 
very small and rather numerous nodules.- D a teral line as axial groove or im- 
pression along side, complete. 
D. 27, rays all low or fin height about 3 in head; A. 25,- origin slightly 
behind dorsal origin, fin like dorsal, fin height 3 l/4 in head; caudal ‘broken, 
apparently emarginate, 8 to 10 inconspicuous rudimentary rays above or below; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 5 l/5; pectoral low, very smdll, broken, about 
long as pupil; ventral about equals eye, inserted midway between front eye 
edge and caudal base. 
Generally blackish brown, small nodules inconspicuously black. Iris neutral 
black, pupil ivory white. Fins pale or whitish. 
Gulf Stream. 
