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Lempanyctus long!peg . (Brauer) 
Myotophum ( Lampanyctus ) longipes BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exp. 
Valdivia, vol, 15, Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, p. 236, text fig. 155. 
N. 31°59*3** W. 15°5*, off Madeira; N* 0°25*8" E. 7°0»3", Gulf of 
Guinea; S. 26°3»6" E. 93°43'7"; S. 10°8»2" E. 97°14*9" south and 
north of Cooos Islands; N. 7°1»2 M E. Bay of Bengal; 
N. 4°56* E. 78°15*3" south of Ceylon; S. 4°5»8* E, 73 0 24 , 8' , ; 
S. 4°5*8 W E. 70°l t 9 w } Chagos Archipelago; S. 2 0 43 , 8" E. 61°12*6 W ; 
S. 4034* 8 n E. 53°42*8 M , Seychelles. 
Lampanyctus lo ngipes PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, 
apt. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 82 (note). 
Lampanyctus pyrsobolus longipes TAANXNG, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturh. 
Foren,, vol* 86, 1928, 65 (diagnosis in key)* 
Depth 3 7/8 to 4; head 3 1/8 to 3 1/5, width 2 to 2 1/5. Snout 
5 3/5 to 6 2/3 in head; eye 2 4/5 to 3 1/10, greater than snout or inter¬ 
orbital; maxillary reaches but slightly behind eye but falls well short 
of nearly vertical hind preopercle edge, expansion 2 1/3 to 3 in eye, 
length 1 3/5 to 1 4/5 in head; interorbital 4 to 4 1/5, level. Gill 
rakers 5 + 14, lanceolate, slender, 1 3/4 in eye; gill filaments 2/3 
gill rakers. 
Scales 31 or 32 in lateral line to caudal base, not enlarged though 
with hind ends straight or truncate; 4 above, 3 below, 10 predorsal forward 
to occiput* Ventral with small axillary scale 3 3/4 in fin. Caudal base 
scaly. Scales with 7 short basal marginal radiating striae; circuli fine, 
complete. 
