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Serpe microstoma Risso 
Serp e microstoma RISSO, Ichth. Nice, 1810, p.356. Nice, 
Microstoma microstoma BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped, Valdivia, vol.15, Fische, 
1906, p,10, fig.l (enterion) (S« 3 ° 31 ’ E. 7 ° 25 1 6 ”, 600 meters. Gulf 
of Guinea).- . 
Microstoma rotundata RISSO, Hist, Nat, Bur, MSrid., vol.3, 1826, p,475, fig.36. 
Nice, - GUNTHER, Cat, Fishes Brit, Mas., vol.6, 1866, p.204 (Messina; Med¬ 
iterranean) , 
Microstoma argenteum VALENCIENNES, Hist, Nat, Poiss., vol«18, 1846P? p,358, 
pi.544. Nice, Sardinia, Messina. 
Depth 8 2/3; head 3 3/4, width 2 l/3. Snout 4 l/lO to 5 in head from snout 
eye 2 2/3 to 3, greatly exceeds short snout or 
tip ;A interorbital; maxillary reaches about 4/5 to eye, largely concealed, 
length 5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 3 2/3, nearly level. Gill rakers 
4-f8 (?), short, slender, lanceolate, greatly less than gill filaments, which 
3 l/3 in eye* 
Scales about 38 to 40 (pockets) if in lateral line to caudal base and 6 more 
out over middle of caudal basally; 4 above, 3 below, 18 (?) predorsal to oc¬ 
ciput, Scales all very caducous, mostly fallen except on caudal peduncle and 
caudal basally. Scales with 3 basal radiating striae, crossing converging 
circuli; circuli as 22 parallel close set striae forming 2 convergent groups, 
in each half of scale basally, not extending apically, 
D. I, 7, second ray 1 l/5 in total head, origin midway between depressed 
pectoral tip and caudal base or very slightly behind ventral origin; anal 
begins behind dorsal or much nearer caudal base than tip of depressed pectoral 
tip; caudal 1 2/5 (?) in head, evidently forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 
