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Dipl ophos proximus Parr 
Piplophos proximus PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol.2, art.4, 
Oct.l'.’bl, P. 14, fig.4 (outline). ' * 24 7 ’ 108 ^ 40 ’, 286 fathoms. 
Depth 9; head 5 9/l0. Cnou.t 3 2/3 in head from snout tip; eye 5, 1 l/2 
in snout; maxillary extends 2/3 eye diameter behind eye, length 1 l/2 in 
head from snout tip; interorbital low. Gill rakers f 9 below, fairly long. 
Scales 85 in median lateral series, 10 transversely. Rounded luminous 
organ below and close before eye. -roup of 3 photophores, linear, on cheek 
under hind end of maxillary; 1 at lower end and near top of opercle, 1 in 
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corner between preouercle, subopercle and interopercle. Dpper lateral series 
of photophores 2 before pectoral base, 25 from pectoral to ventral, 14 from 
ventral to anal, 36 or 37 from anal origin to end of series of 24 anterior 
well developed and conspicuous; 80 small photophores following lateral line; 
ventral series 16 from isthmus to pectoral, 25 from pectoral to ventral, 
13 from ventral to anal, 41 from anal to caudal. 
D. 10, _I, fin height 2 3/4 in total head length; A. 58, fin height 3 2/5: 
pectoral 1 l/3; ventral 1 9/l0. 
Length 82 mm. without caudal. (Parr.) 
Gulf of California, 
Diplophos taenia Gunther 
Diplophos taenia GUNTHER, Journ. -us. Godeffroy, vol.2. 1873. p.102. S. 30 
‘ ■ - 
V. 24 ; 22 W, 30 ; mid Atlantic; Rep. Yoy. Challenger, vol.31, 
1889, p.32, pl.4, fig. C (types). - LIT THEN, Kon. Dansk. Vidensk. Sels. 
Skr. Kobenhaun, ser.6, vol.7, 1892, p.278, pi.2, figs. 1-3 (N. 10 0 W. 
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