155 
first branched ray 1 7/8 in total head length? A. 11,15, first branched 
ray 1 4/5; caudal 1 l/4; least depth of caudal neduncle 3 4/5, long, slender; 
pectoral 1 3/4; ventral 2 2/3. 
♦ 
Blue black* Length 39 mm* (Brauer.) 
North and South Atlantic• 
Cvclothone mic rodon (Gunther) 
Gonostoma microdon GNNTHER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.5, vol.2, 1878, p.187. 
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in 500 to 2900 fathoms; Rep. Voy. Challenger, 
vol.22, 1887, p.175 (types; South Pacific; Eermadec Islands; Mid-Pacif-- 
ic; off lew South Wales; Antarctic Ocean; north of Hew Guinea; Amboina; 
western Pacific; south of Japan; south of Yeddo; in 450 to 2900 fathoms) 
. - ALC0CE, Journ. Asiatic S 0 c. Bengal, vol.65, pt.2, 1896, p.331 (off 
Andamans, in 265 to 485 fathoms); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.6, vol.4, 
1898, p.399 (Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, in 265 to 485 fathoms). - 
f 
WAITE, Records Canterbury Mus., vol.l, No.l, Ap.25, 1907, p.10 (reference). 
Gonostoma ( Cyclothone ) microdon Lutken,Kon. Danske Vidensk. Sels. Skrift. 
Kobenhaun, vol.7, ser.6, 1892, p.280 (Baffins Bay). 
Cyclothone microdon LUTKEN, Kon. Danske Vidensk. Sels. Skrift. KBbenhaun. 
1 ,r * _ ‘ • 1 • ’ 1 *■- ^ — — ■ i 9 
vol.7, ser.6, 1892, pi.2, figs.4 - 5. - GILBERT, Rep. U.8. Fish Comm., 
pt.19, 1893 (1895), p.402 (southwest of Pribilof Islands, 1033 and 1625 
fathoms). - GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.99, pi.30, fig.114. 
(Atlantic materials). - COTLETT, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol.21, 1896, p,13( 
( ). - JORDAN, and EVERMANN, Bull. U.S.Nat. Mus. No.47, pt.l, 1896, 
p.582 (copied). - ALCOCK, Gat. Deep °ea *ishes Indian Mus., 1899, p.141 
