Mora pacifica Waite 
Mora pacifica WAITE, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 46, p. 
128, pi. 5, 1913 (June 15, 1914) (type locality: Kaikoura). 
Genus Lepidion Swainson 
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Lepidion SWAINSON, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 300, 1839. 
(Type Lepidion rubescens S WAINSON =. Gadus lepidion RISSO, 
. tautotypic.) ( Lepldia SAVIC-NY 1817 not involved.) 
Haloporphyrus GATHER,- Cat# Wishes Brit* Ivlus «, vol# 4, p# 358, 
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1862. (Type Gadus lepidion RISSO, monotypic.) 
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Salilota Gt?NTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger , vol. 22, p. 95, 1887. 
(Type Halo porphyrus australis GttNTHER, monotypic.) 
Body oblong, elongate. Head thick, rather compressed. Snout 
short, bluntly conic. Mouth moderate, lower jaw shorter than upper. 
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Maxillary reaches below eye. Teeth villiform, of equal size in jaws and 
slender, present on vomer, none on palatines, j.landioular barbel present 
Gill rakers slender. Branchiostegals 7. Abdominal cavity extends far 
behind vent. Pylqric coeca very long, 10 to 17. Scales small, cycloid. 
Two dorsals, first fin with 4 to 9 rays. Hind rays of second dorsal and 
anal highest. One anal fin. Caudal rounded or subtruncate, separate 
from dorsal or anal. Ventrals with narrow or wide base, rays 6 to 3. 
