1285 
Polyacanthonotus rlssoanus GOODS and BEAN, Oceanic 
Ichth., 1895, p. 170, (not pi. 51, fig. 188) 
pi. 52, figs. 194a (head below) b (ventrals) 
(copied), text fig. (compiled). 
Depth 12 2/5, 4 to vent; head 8 l/6 to caudal base, 2 
3/5 to vent, width 3 1/8. Snout 2 7/8 in head; eye 6 1/2, 
2 1/3 in snout, subequal with interorbital; maxillary reach¬ 
es 3/4 to eye, with moderately small spine; teeth fine, 
slender, small, uniform, uniserial in jaws and palatines, 
continuous in both; interorbital 5 7/8, convex. Gill rakers 
4 + 15?, lanceolate, slender, subequal with gill filaments 
or 2 in eye. 
Scales very fine, mostly fallen. Lateral line axial, 
extends nearly to last third of tail. 
D. XXXL, last spine double, first over hind edge of gill 
opening; A. XXXVI, 135?; caudal equals eye; pectoral 1 4/5 in 
head, reaches half way to ventral; ventral 2 in head, fins 
confluent. 
