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D. 5368# Tay abas Light (outer), II# 32 W., 21# 8 miles (N. 13 0 
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35 1 30 !l E# 121 48 *), Marinduqiie Island and vicinity# In 181 fathoms# 
February 23, 1909# Length 55 mm# 
Astronesthes gerrnif er Gooce and Bean 
. 
Astronesthe s gemmifer GOODE and BEAM, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p#105, pl#33, fig# 
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124* N. 44 25 f '• 53 0 12 * , from halibut taken in 300 fathoms# - 
JORPtN and EVERMAHK, Bull. U# S. Nat. Mas#, No.47, pt.l, 1396, p#586 
(copied); pt.4, 1900, pl#93, fig.251 (copied). - PARR, Bull. Bingham 
Oceanogr. Collection, vol.o, art.2, Dec. 30, 1927, p#30, fig.21 b (maxil¬ 
lary) (type). - REGAN and TKEWAVAS, Danish Dana Exped* Oceanogr. Rep., No. 
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5, May 30, 1929, p.19, pl.l, fig.3 (N. 13 47 1 W. 61 26 f , 3500 meters; 
N« 34 ° ¥* 70 ° 1 », 150 meters; N. 12 ° 59 ’ ¥. 32 ° 49 », 300 meters; 
off Sierra Leone). 
Depth 5; head 4 2/3, width 2 o/4. Snout 3 1/2 in head from snort tip; 
eye 3 l/2, equals snout or interorbital; maxillary extends 1 l/5 eye diameters 
behind eye,expansion 2 3/4 in eye, length but lightly less than head from 
snout tip; each premaxillary with 4 large canines; maxillary teeth very fine, 
uniform, numerous; mandible with anterior pair of long canines, then 6 or 7 
graduated shorter on each ramus; barbel equals he d, simple; interorbital 
3 l/2, low, depressed medially, fill rakers 2 f 10, mostly as short, dovble 
or rarely triple denticles, 1 3/4 in gill filaments, which 1 l/2 in eye. 
Small postorbital photophore below eye. Upper lateral photophores 16 
between sectoral and ventral, 20 between ventral and anal, 19 (?) from opposite 
anal origin to caudal base; lower or ventral series 13 on isthmus to pectoral. 
