Aldrovandia pallida GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth,, 
1895, p. 135, pi. 42, fig. 158. N. 24° 36* W. 
84° 5', 955 fathoms; N. 28° to 41° W. 65° to 87°, 
679 to 1430 fathoms. — JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., No, 47, pt. 1, 1896, p. 611 (copied). 
Depth 18 to 18 1/4, 7 to 8 1/2 to vent; head 5 1/5 to 6 
2/5 In total, 3 to 3 1/8 to vent, width 3 to 4 1/2. Snout 
2 to 2 2/5 in head, preoral portion 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 in snout 
length to eye; orbit 43/5 to 7 1/4 in head; eye 7 1/4 to 
9 1/5, 3 2/3 to 4 in snout, 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 in interorbital; 
maxillary reaches 7/8 to eye, length from snout tip 2 to 2 
1/4 in head; teeth in broad villiform bands in Jaws, narrow¬ 
er closely approximated bands on palatines; interorbital 6 to 
6 1/5, low depressed. Gill rakers 2 or 3 4* 12, lanceolate, 
1 4/5 in eye; gill filaments 2/3 gill rakers. 
Scales 56 in lateral line to vent; 30 enlarged scales 
in lateral line to anal, followed by others to middle of tail; 
14 above, 3 below, 36 predorsal to occiput. Top of head naked, 
postocular scaly. Dorsal and anal scaly. Scales caducous, 
most all fallen. 
