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11 * S * N * M *’ no * 78234. Paratypes of Gadomus ftagnifilis . Albatross 
Collection (D.5201). Limasaua Island ( E.) S. 1° E., 14. 80 miles 
(lat. 10 10’ long. 125° 4' 15'' E.), Sogod Bay, southern Leyte. In 
554 fathoms. April 10, 1908. Length 235 mm. 
Albatross Collection (D.5423). Cagayan Island (S.), S. 11° E., 4.8 miles 
(lat.. 9 o8 f 30” N., long. 121° 11* E.), Jolo Sea. In 508 fathoms. March 
31, 1909. Length 223 mm. 
(Gilbert) 
Gadomus melanopteru s GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 23, 
pt. 2, p. 658, fig. 256, 1903 (1905) (type locality: near Kauai 
Island, 444 to 478 fathoms). —BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. 
Valeivia , vol. 15, p. 394, 1906 (reference) --GILBERT and HUBBS, 
rroc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 142, 1916 (reference); Bull. 
J. S. Nat. Mus., no. 100, vol. 1, p. 393, 1920 (diagnosis in key). 
FOWLER, Menu Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 86, 1928 (compiled). 
Depth 6 1/5; head 5 l/8, width 2 1/4. Snout 3 2/3 in head from 
snout tip; eye 4 2/5, 1 l/4 in snout, 1 l/lO in interorbital; maxillary 
* 
reaches slightly beyond eye, length 1 4/5 in head from snout tip; long 
slender mandibular barbel 2 l/8; teeth minute, villiform, compact, in bands 
m jaws with upper wider; interorbital 4 l/2, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 
o or 6 + 27, slender, lanceolate, 1 l/3 in eye; gill filaments 2/5 ' of gill 
rakers. 
