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Bathycongrus stimpsoni new species 
Depth E 1/4 to 3 l/8 in head, 17 4/5 to 18 1/4 to caudal base; 
head 6 3/4 to 7, 2 E/5 to S S/3 to vent, width 3 3/5 to 3 4/5 its 
length; combined head and trunk 1 3/5 to 1 9/10 in tail to caudal 
base. Snout 3 l/S to 3 4/5 in head; eye 4 7/8 to 6, 1 S/5 to 13/5 
in snout, greatly exceeds interorbital; mouth cleft reaches l/S to 
3/5 in eye, length S 2/5 to S 2/3 in head; teeth small, conic, in 
narrow bands in jaws becoming minute posteriorly and some anterior, 
especially below, noticeably largest; premaxillias with broad band 
of exposed x*ather large teeth before closed mandible tip, formed as 
3 or 4 irregular series and followed by row of 4 or 5 moderately 
large simple teeth on vomer and first often largest interorbital 8 to 
14 1/2, nearly or quite level. Gill opening 5 4/5 to 6 2/5, oblique, 
mostly below and before pectoral base. 
Lateral line axial, prominent. 
Dorsal origin over middle of depressed pectoral, fin height 3 
2/5 to 7 in head; anal fin height 4 1/4 to 8 1/2; caudal 4 1/4 to 8, 
pointed; pectoral 3 7/8 to 4. 
Uniformly pale brown to uniform dusky with age, scarcely paler 
on belly and under surface of head. Top and sides of head, espec¬ 
ially on onercle, dark brown. Iris grayish. Inside gill opening 
blackish. Fins all pale brownish, vertical ones only dark or dusky 
short extent posteriorly. 
