2018 
Cheek with 2 photophores, upper level with eye center and midway in 
space to lower as measured in vertical, lower above and little before hind 
maxillary end; 5 pectorals, fourth elevated level with pectoral fin 
origin or over last pectoral interval, first pectoral interval longest, 
third shortest; 1 suprapectoral, close below lateral line, well before 
subpectorals; 2 subpectorals, in inclined line with suprapectoral and 
second pectoral, close together before pectoral fin base; 4 ventrals, 
level; 1 3 upraventral, nearly level with fourth pectoral, over first ven¬ 
tral; anals 6-^7, anteroanals curved upward, posteroanals all behind 
anal fin base and continuous with precaudals; 3 supraanals, in broadly 
angulate series, first and second level with supraventral, first over 
second ventral interval, second behind last ventral spot and third close 
below lateral line over first anteroanal; 2 posterolaterals, in inclined 
line with last anteroanal, first or lower close above last anteroanal, 
* 
upper close below lateral line; 4 precaudals, first slightly nearer 
margin of infracaudal scales than seventh posteroanal, upper spot at end 
of lateral line* Dorsal series of 19 photophores along each side of 
back from nape till behind dorsal fin, 16 in main series. Supracaudal 
luminous scales 3, infracaudal 7* 
D. 16; A. 17, begin below hind basal edge of dorsal; pectoral 31/6 
in combined head and body to caudal base; ventral 1 l/2 in head. 
Length without caudal 55 mm. (Parr.) 
Western Atlantic. 
