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Genus Bathymlcrops Murray and Hjort 
Bathym l crops MURRAY and HJORT, Depths r of the Ocean, 1912, 
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pp. 416, 686. Type Bathymlcrops regls MURRAY and 
HJORT, monotypic. 
Body elongate, very slender, tapering back from head 
with rather long narrow caudal peduncle. Head depressed. 
Maxillary very long, but little shorter than head. Mandible 
slightly protruded. Whole head covered with scales, which 
only faintly visible through scales as minute black dots. 
Scales rather small. Dorsal premedian, entirely before post¬ 
median anal. No adipose fin. Caudal triangular. Pectoral 
inserted rather high. Ventral damaged, midway between pector¬ 
al and. dorsal. 
