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Body elongate, rather deep. Head large. Snout obtuse. lafcge, far 
forward. Mouth large. * i ’eeth very small. Interorbital moderately high. Photo- 
phores in nearly continuous ventral series, ftorsal origin very slightly post¬ 
median. Anal origin but slightly behind dorsal origin, front rays not greatly 
elongated. Adipose fin present. Caudal forked. Paired fins small. 
Margrethia obtusirostra Jespersen and Taaning 
Mar grethia obtusirostra JESPERSEN and TAANING, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Nat. Foren. 
KSbenhaun, vol.70, 1919, p.222, pi.17, figs 11 and 12. Station 1072, 300 
meters; Station 1060, 300 meters; Atlantic Ocean* - NORMAN, Discovery Hep*, 
vol.2, 1930, p.281 (compiled)* 
Depth 3 2/S; head 3* Snout 6 in head; eye 3, greater than snout; max¬ 
illary extends 3/5 an eye diameter behind eye, length 1 1/4 in head. Gill 
rakers 5 -f 10. 
Three opercular photophores, uppermost level with lower eye edge, lowest 
" T * ' • - *1 ’ll - ? -> ’* ■ - ♦ ,■ • •* '*• 1 «*i *| * 1 * ! . 1- , •• ! 'ft 
opposite hind maxillary end, third spot posterior or in line with lowest and 
pectoral fin origin. Ventral series 12 branchiostegals, 14 or 15 from gill 
opening to ventral, 4 from ventral to vent, 13 above anal base and 4 on lower 
surface of caudal peduncle. 
D. 16, fourth ray 1 9/l0 in total head length; A* 23 to 26, second ray 
1 g/3; caudal 1; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 2/3; pectoral 2 l/2; 
ventral 3. 
Length 19 mm# withot caudal. (Jespersen and Taaning.) 
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Atlantic. 
Genus G0N0 STOMA Rafinesque 
Gonostoma Rafinesque, Indice Itt. Sicil., 1810, p.64. Type Gono stoma d enudata 
