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and ventral fins. Ventral series of photophores from isthmus to ventrals and 
between ventrals and anal, organs nearly touching one another, above anal 
arranged in 4 or 5 close set groups on rather large black patches, ^orsal 
origin little premedian, fin small, opposite anal origin. Adipose fin small, 
rather close behind dorsal. Anal 23 to 25, long, low. Caudal emarginate. 
Sectoral rays 10 to 12, fin set low or near ventral profile. Ventral rays 7 
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or 8, short, little premedian. 
Valenciermellu s tripunctu1atus (Esmark) 
I laurolicus tripunctulatus ESMARK, Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Christiania, vol.13, 
1870 (1871), p.488. -ear Madagascar. - LUTKEN, Kon. Danske Vidensk. 
Selsk. Skrift. Kjoebenhaun, ser.6, vol.7, 1892, 269, pl.l, fig.6 (type; 
Denmark Straits between Greenland and Iceland). 
Va 1 enc i enne 1 lu s t r ipunc tu latu s JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. IT. S. Nat. Mus., Ko.4'j| 
pt.l, 1896, p.578 (copied). - MURRAY and HJORT, Depths of the Ogean, 1912, 
p.612 (Gibraltar to Gran Canaria, thence to Cape Bopador, Gran Canaria to 
Faval, Azores to Newfoundland; 1215 to 2886 meters).- GOODE and BEAN, 
Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.513 (compiled). - ITEBER, Siboga Exped., vol.57, 
Fische, 1913, p.20 (Timor Sea, in 421 meters). - WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes 
Indo Austral. Archipelago, vol.2, 1913, p.136, fig.50 (Timor material). - 
ti 
PAPPENHEIM, Deutsch. Sudpolar Exped., vol.15, pt.2, 1914, p.132 (S. 32 
o 
v. r . 8 28 *, 500 mm*). - PIETSCHEANN, Sitz. fier. AKAD. Wiss. Wien, Math. - 
naturw. K'lasse, vol.123, pt.l, 1914, p.427, pi.2, figs.4 - 5 ( )_- 
NORMAN, Discovery ftep., vol.2, 1930, p.300 (S. 33 ° 25 » E. 6 ° 31 ' , 
O o Q 
1000 meters; S* 5 54 1 E. 11 19 ? , 150 meters; S* 2 43 1 30 M W# 
