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Astronesthes martensii Klunz’nger 
Astronesthes martensii Verhandel. zool. botan. Resell. V/ien, 
ti 
to1#21, 1671, p.594. ^ed ■ ea. - LUTICE1T, Kon. Dan sic** Vidensk. Selsk. 
Skrift. K&benhavn, series 6, vol.7, .1892, p # (273) 276, pi.3, figs. 6-7. 
REGAL and TRMAVAS, Danish Dana Exped. Ooeanogr. Rep., Ho.5, May 30, 1929, 
p.17, fig.7, (type). • . 
Astronesthes martensi BRAUSK, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia, vol.15, Tiefsee 
- Pische, 1906, p.52 (part). - PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, 
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vol.3, art.2, Dec.30, 1927, p.34 (part). 
Depth 7 to 7 l/4; head 4 l/2 to 4 3/4. Eye 4 to 4 l/3 ir head; 11 or 12 
palatine teeth each side; barbel 1 l/3 length of head, slender oigmented, 
ending in small, white elongate bulb without appendages. 
Postocular luminous organ close to eye, extended forward below eye. Later¬ 
al photophores 17 between gill opening and ventral, 20 between ventral and 
anal. 'entral series 10 or 11 between isthmus and pectoral, 17 or 18 between 
pectoral and ventral, 18 to 20 between ventral and anal, 12 or 13 between anal 
and caudal of which seventh, eighth and ninth at higher level. 
D, 11 or 12, begins little behind ventral, ends well before anal; A. 19 
to 22; pectoral 6 or 7; ventral 7, little premedian, ^orsal and ventral 
adipose fins short. 
length 150 mm. without caudal. (Regan and Trewavas.) 
Red Sea. 
Astronesthes lucifer Gilbert 
Astronesthes luc Ifer GILBERT, Bull. U.S.Fish Comm., vol.23, pt.2, 1903 (1905), 
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