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Lampanyctus margarit1f erus (Goode and Bean) 
Notoseopelus margaritiferus GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 
p. 85, pi. 25, fig. 98. Off Banquero; Gloucester Donations. 
Macrostoma margaritiferum JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., No. 47, pt. 1, 1896, p. 555 (compiled). 
Myotophum ( Lampanyctus ) margaritiferum BRAUER, Zool. Anzeiger, 
vol. 28, Nr. 10, Dec. 20, 1904, p. 395 (diagnosis in key); 
Deutsch. Tiefsee Exp. Valdivia, vol. 15, Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, 
p. 166 (diagnosis in key). 
Lampanyctus margaritifer PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, 
vol. 3, art. 3, 1928, p. 80 (compiled); Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 76, 1929, p. 13 (type). 
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Depth 5 1/8; head 3 2/3, width 2 1/2. Snout 7 1/8 in head from 
snout tip; eye 4 1/8, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary 
extends 1 2/5 eye diameters behind eye though not quite to well inclined 
hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 2/5 in head from snout tip; 
interorbital 3 l/2, level. Gill rakers 9 f 19, lanceolate, slender, 
equal eye; gill filaments 3/5 gill rakers. 
