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Depth 6 l/3 to 6 2/5; head 5 l/4 to 5 l/2, width 1 l/2 to 
1 7/8. Snout 3 to 3 l/lO in head from snout tip; eye 4 l/2 to 5 l/8, 1 2/5 
to 1 3/5 in snout, 1 3/4 to 2 in interorbital; maxillary well inclined, 
reaches hind eye edge, length 1 3/5 to 1 7/8 in head from snout tip; 
mandible slightly protrudes; no barbel; teeth rather coarsely villiform 
above, in rather wide bands of 7 or 8 irregular wide set series, lower 
smaller and in 3 or 4 close set or contracted irregular series; interorbital 
2 l/3 to 2 4/5, broad, low, unevenly convex. Gill rakers 6 or 7 + 22 to 
24, lanceolate, little longer than gill filaments or l/2 of eye, on 
first arch. 
Scales (pockets) 120?, of which 18 forward of vent; 5 above, 
15 below, 28 predorsal. Scales on head like those on body. Scales simple, 
without striae; circuli rather fine, complete. 
D. II, 8 or II , 9, 111, fins continuous, rays all damaged; A. 
104?, begins little before end of depressed pectoral; no caudal; pectoral 
rays _I, 17 to I, 19, fin 1 5/6 in head; ventral rays _I, 8, fin (damaged) 
origin opposite first dorsal origin. 
Dusky or dark brown. Iris pale. Inside mouth and gill opening 
blackish. Paired fins and belly dusky, latter more or less swarthy. 
Hawaiian Islands. According to Gilbert this species differs 
from Bathygadus cottoides, from the Kermadecs and New Zealand, in the 
presence of a short slit behind the last gill arch, number of dorsal and 
pectoral rays, gill rakers and proportions of head. In smaller preserved 
examples the head and belly are much darker and in contrast with the rest 
of the pale trunk and long tail. 
