2058 
D. 14 to 16, fin height 2 1/10 in total head length; adipose fin 4; 
A. 18 or 19, height 2 l/3, fin origin about midway in dorsal length; 
caudal forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; ventral 2 1/10. 
Coloration not given. (Parr.) 
Atlantic, Antarctic and Pacific Oceans. 
Lampanyctus cuprarius Taaning 
Lampanyctus cuprarius TAANING, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturh. Foren. 
Kobenhavn, vol. 86, 1928, p. 68. North Atlantic; diagnosis in 
key, —PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, art. 3, 
1928, p. (88) 106, fig. 18 (N. 21° to 32° W. 64° to 77°, 4000 to 
10000 feet). 
Depth 5 3/4; head 3 l/2. Snout 5 1/2 in head from snout tip; eye 5, 
slightly greater than snout; maxillary extends back well beyond eye though 
not quite to well inclined hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 1/3 in 
head; interorbital evidently depressed as orbit enters profile. 
Scales 33 or 34 in lateral line, enlarged on caudal peduncle. 
