1924 
Depth 4 1/4 to 4 1/2; head 3 1/3 to 3 1/2, width 2 to 2 1/4. 
Snout 5 to 5 3/4 in head from snout tip; eye 2 2/5 to 2 2/3, greater than 
snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches little or but slightly behind 
eye, but not quite to vertical hind preopercle edge, expansion 2 1/4 to 
2 1/2 in eye, length 1 1/2 to 1 3/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
3 1/3 to 3 2/3, concave to nearly level. Gill rakers 6 -f 14, lanceolate, 
1/2 of eye; gill filaments 1/3 of eye. 
Scales 38 or 39 in lateral line, not enlarged; 3 above, 4 or 5 below, 
32 predorsal to occiput. Caudal base scaly. Scales very caducous, most 
all fallen. Scales with 7 basal radiating striae; circuli rather fine, 
more or less complete. 
Small lower antorbital photophore, sometimes also an upper well 
superior; 2 operculars, upper larger and in line inclined from lower eye 
edge to lower subpectoral; 3 equidistant veiled branchiostegals; 5 
pectorals, with third interspace shortest and first and second subequally 
longest; 1 suprapectoral, before pectoral fin origin and midway between 
same and lateral line; 2 subpectorals, first or lower slightly before 
suprapectoral or over second pectoral, upper close before lowest pectoral 
ray bases; 4 equidistant ventrals; 1 supraventral over ventral origin 
and nearly midway between latter and lateral line; 6 -V 7 or 8 anals, at 
least half of posteroanalsover anal fin base; 3 supraanals, first lowest 
or distinctly lower than supraventral or just above lowest third of space 
below lateral line and behind second ventral, second over or little behind last 
ventral and level with supraventral and third on lateral line over or little 
before first anteroanal; 2 posterolaterals, lower before, over or little behind 
last anteroanal and upper on lateral line over break in anal series; 2 wide set 
precaudels, lower near lower edge of tail and upper posterior on or below lateral 
line at caudal base. Male with 4 to 6 supracaudal luminous scales, female with 
1 to 3 infracaudal. 
