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Depth 3 4/5 to 4 1/4; head 3 to 3 l/5, width 2 3/4 to 3 l/lO. Snout 
3 2/5 to 3 l/2 in head from snout tip; eye 2 7/s to 3, greater than snout or 
or very narrow interorbital; maxillary reaches l/2 in eye, expansion 1 1/4 
to 1 2/5 in eye, length 1 2/3 to 1 4/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
5 to 6 l/4, low. Gill rakers 6 or 7 19, finely lanceolate, 1 2/5 in eye; 
gill filaments 2 l/2 in eye. 
Scales 25 or 26 in median lateral series to caudal base. Scales very ca¬ 
ducous, most all fallen. 
One preorbital photophore before middle of front eye edge; 3 operci-lars, 
upper on front border of opercie level with eye center, other 2 at same level 
or in line or slightly above pectoral fin origin, well separated or with an¬ 
terior about opposite hind edge of orbit and posterior close before origin of 
pectoral fin; 1 mandible far forward or nean* symphysis; row of 6 to 8 close 
set branchiostegals veiled in branch!ostegal membrane level with 2 lower 
operculars and pectoral fin origin; upper or lateral series 9 between pectoral 
and ventral; lower or ventral series 6 on isthmus close set and compart, 12 
abdominals below pectoral to ventral of which 2 before pectoral origin, 6 be¬ 
tween ventral and anal, anals 1 ^ 15 to 18 + 8, of posteroanals only 2 over 
bases of last anal ravs. 
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D. I , first branched ray 1 0/5 in total head length; adipose fin 
1 7/8 to 2 l/8; A. 111 ,22 or III , 23, first branched ray anteriorly 2 l/4 to 
2 2/5; caudal 1 1/4 to 1 2/3 (?), well forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 
3 l/5 to 3 l/4; pectoral 1 3/5 (?) to 1 2/3; ventral 2. (?) to 2 l/5. 
Back brown, usually pale in alcoholics, bides of head and body brilliant 
silvery white, also iris. 
fins all pale brownish. 
Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic Ocean. 
