575 
Bathygadus micronema GILBERT and HUBBS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 51, p. 142, 1916 (reference); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 
100, vol. 1, p. 380, 1920 (diagnosis in key). —FOWLER, Mem. 
Bishop Mus,, vol. 10, p. 85, 1928 (compiled). 
Depth 6 4/5; head 5 l/5, width 2 . Snout 3 l/4 in head from 
snout tip; eye 5, 1 l/4 in snout, 1 l/lO in interorbital; maxillary extends 
little beyond eye, length 1 2/3 in total head length; minute mandibular 
barbel scarcely evident at lower symphyseal face; teeth very finely and 
minutely villiform, upper band slightly broader than lower; interorbital 
4 l/4, low, nearly level, though surface little uneven. Gill rakers 6 or 
7+28, lanceolate on first arch, 1 l/3 in eye; gill filaments 2/5 gill 
rakers. 
Scales 140 in medial or axial lateral series, of which 25 forward 
of vent; 6? above, 18 below, 30? predorsal. Scales small, thin, cycloid, 
very caducous, most all fallen. Scales on head apparently subequal with 
those on body. Scales simple, mthout striae; circuli moderate, complete, 
forming angles at horizontal axis basally. 
D. II, 10 - 103, second simple ray filamentous, little longer than 
■m 
irhead or 4 l/3? in total fish; A. 84, rays all much lower than dorsal; 
distinct pseudocaudal (broken), evidently l/2 of eye; pectoral rays _I, 17, 
fin 3 3/4? in total fish, upper ray ending in long filament; ventral rays 
_I, 7, first ray ending in long filament so fin apparently long as pectoral. 
Brownish. Opercular region of head, breast and belly dusky to 
swarthy. Iris gray. Inside mouth and gill opening blackish. Fins 
brownish. 
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