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Bregmaceros japonicus TANAKA., 
—JORDAN and THOMPSON, Mem* Carnegie Mus*, vol. 6, no. 4, 
p. 304, Sept. 1914 (Misaki). —JORDAN and HUBBS, Mem. Carnegie 
Mus., vol. 10, no. 2, p, 326, June 27, 1925 (Toyana). 
Genus Auc henoceros Gttnther 
Auohenooeros GttNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger , vol. 31, pt. 2, 
p. 24, 1889. (Type Calloptilum punctatum HUTTON, monotypie.) 
Body compressed, elongate. Head small, compressed, greater 
than trunk. Snout short. Eye moderate, anterior. Mouth large, terminal. 
Teeth villiform, in hands in jaws, none on palate. Gill openings wide, 
membranes not attached to isthmus. Pseudobranchiae none. Air bladder 
small. Pyloric coeca 8. Scales small, very delicate, deciduous. Two 
dorsals, anterior reduced to single rays from nape above pectoral, second 
fin more or less depressed in middle. One anal, long and low. Caudal small, 
free. Pectorals moderate, in upper half of body depth, Ventrals rudimentary, 
each of 2 long slender rays# 
Auchenoceros punctatus (Hutton) 
Calloptilum punctatum HUTTON, Frans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 
5, p* 265, pl» 11, fig. 76a, 1872 (1873) (type locality: mouth of 
River Thames; and Cape Campbell). 
