JL39 
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Back blackish brown, with minute darker specks. Small black triangle 
descends until level with upper edge of pupil. Small iridescent blackish 
spot before eye and upper part of opercle black. Eye brownish black, pupil 
surrounded by golden ring, Rhotophores strongly defined with black. 
Length 93 menu (McCulloch.) 
Great Australian Bight. 
Polyipnus stereope Jordan and Starks 
Polyipnus stereope JORDAN and STAKES, Bull. U.S.Fish C 0 mm., vol.22, 1902 (1904) 
p.581, pi.2, fig.3. Sagami Bay, Japan. 
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Folyipnus spinosus (not GUNTHER) BAMAHD, Aim. South African Mus., vol.21, 
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June 1925, p.155 (part). 
Depth 1 0 / 5 ; head 2 4 / 5 , width 1 4/5. Snout 4 l/2 in head from snout 
tipj eye 2 l/8, greatly exceeds snout or interorbitalj maxillary reaches 1/4 
in eye, expansion 1 0/4 in eye, length 1 1/4 in head from snout tip; inter- 
orbital 4, rather low, depressed .and concave medially; opercular seine 1 3/4 
in eye. Gill rakers 10 -f 18, finely lanceolate, subequal with gill filaments 
or 1 3/4 in eye. 
Preorbital photophore opposite middle of front eye edge; cheek with large 
photophore, nearly large as pupil, on lower limb of preopercle; 2 operculars, 
upper opposite middle of hind eye edge, lower just behind and above preopercle 
angle. Upper lateral series of photophores 8, first higher than others except 
third and seventh, third level with lower eye edge, fourth to sixth gradually 
lower with fourth nearly level with lower opercular and with sixth lower than 
