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An interesting genus, noted for its combination of characters, 
as soft cavernous skull, vomerine teeth, vent before first third of body and 
the elevated front anal lobe. 
Steindachneria argentea Goode and Bean 
Steindachner ia argentea GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., p. 419, 
pi. 101, fig. 351, 1895 (type locality: lat. 29° 14' 30" N., 
ling. 88° 09* 30" W., off Mississippi Delta, 68 fathoms). 
— JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. , no. 47, pt. 3, 
p. 2568 (1898) (compiled). —GILBERT and HUBBS, Proc. U. S. N. M. , 
vo1. 51, p» 142, 1916 (reference). 
Depth 7 l/4; head 5 l/8. width 2 1/4. Snout 4 l/5 in head from si out 
tip; eye 3 l/2, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/3 
in eye, length 1 9/l9 in head from snout tip; outer row of 28 slightly larger 
curved teeth above and inner band of close set more numerous short simple teeth, 
below similar teeth with outer row of 13 and few very short inconspicuous ones 
forming inner row; interorbital 5 l/3 in head, low, uneven. Gill rakers 
5 + 14, lanceolate, slender, on first arch, 2 3/4 in eye; gill filaments 
7/8 of gill rakers. 
