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Scopelus boaapartil VALENCIENNES„ Hist* Nat* Poiss, vol. 22, 1848, 
p. 449. Nice. —JOHNSON, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 1862, 
p* 281 (Madeira). —CANESTRINI, Fauna Italia Pesci, 1874, p. 125 
(Sicily). —MOREAU, Poiss. France, vol. 3, 1881, p. 507, fig. 203 
(Nice). 
Scopelus doderleini FAC01OLA, Nat. Sicil., Anira., vol. 1, 1882, 
p. 193, figs. 1-4. Messina. 
Scopelus acanthurus FAgCIOLA, Nat. Sicil. Anim., vol. 1, 1882, 
p. 166. Messina. 
Depth 4 3/4 to 5; head 3 to 3 l/8, width 2 2/5. Snout 5 1/8 to 5 l/4 
in head from snout tip; eye 3 l/8, greater than snout or interorbital; 
maxillary extends 1/2 to 3/5 eye diameter beyond eye but not quite to well 
inclined hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 l/3 to 1 2/5 in head 
from snout tip; interorbit&l 4 2/5, little concave. Gill rakers 9-^17, 
lanceolate, 1 2/5 in interorbital; gill filaments 1/2 of eye. 
Scales 34 to 37 in lateral line, slightly enlarged; 3 above, 3 below, 
13 predorsal to occiput. Caudal base scaly. Scales with 2 basal radiating 
striae; circuli fine, complete. 
