923 . 
Cae lorhinehus scaphopsis (Gilbert) 
Maerurus (Coelorhynchus) soajrfiopsis Gilbert, Proc. U. S* Nat. Mus*. vol. 
g * " 1 
13, p. 115, 1890 (1891) (type locality t off southern California, in 
145 fathoms). — Brauer , Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia, vol. 15, p. 
388, 1906 (reference). 
Coelorhynchus scaphopsis Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., p. 397, 1895 
* 
(copied). —Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 3, 
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p. 2590, 1898 (copied). «._ Garman , Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 24, p. 
* 
397, 1899 (reference). _Gilbert and Hubbs , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 51, p. 144, 1916 (reference); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 100, vol. 
1, p. 426, 1920 (diagnosis in key). 
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Depth 6 l/8; head 4, width 1 9/10. Snout to eye 2 4/5 in head; 
eye 4 l/3, 1 l/2 in snout, 1 in interorbital; orbit 3 l/8 in head, 1 in 
snout, 1 l/3 times interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/5 in eye, length 
from front end 3 in head; mandibular barbel 2 l/3 in eye; teeth in villi- 
form bands in jaws, of 5 or 6 irregular rows; interorbital 4 2/5 in head, 
low and nearly level. Gill rakers 0+7, low spinesoent tubercles on 
second arch, l/4 of gill filaments, which l/2 of eye. 
Scales about 105 in lateral line; 6 above, 14 below, 10 predor¬ 
sal forward to occiput, which about first third in space between hind eye 
edge and first dorsal origin. Scales with 9 or 10 parallel series of 
apical spinules, though only 3 or 4 complete and with last spinules pro- 
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jecting beyond hind scale edge; cireuli fin©* complete* 
