580 
Bathygadus ( Bathygadus ) spongiceps WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes 
Indo Austral. Archip., vol. 5, p. 17, 1929 (compiled). 
Depth 7 to 7 3/4; head 5 l/8 to 5 3/4, width 1 7/8 to 2. Snout 
3 to 3 l/5 in head from snout tip; eye 6 to 7, 1 3/4 to 2 l/4 in snout, 2 • 
to 2 l/5 in interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, length 
1 4/5 to 1 5/6 in head from snout tip; teeth subequal, in villiform bands 
in jaws of 7 or 8 irregular rows transversely above and 4 or 5 below; 
interorbital 3 to 3 l/6, rather low, unevenly convex. Gill rakers 5 or 
6 + 19 to 22 nn first arch, lanceolate, 1 2/3 in eye; gill filaments 3/5 
of gill rakers. 
Scales 122 in medial or axial lateral series; 6 above, 12? below, 
15? predorsal forward to occiput or opposite hind eye edge. Scales very 
caducous, most all fallen, present on head where apparently similar to rest 
of body. Scales simple, thin, without striae; circuli fine, complete. 
D. I, 9 or I, 8 - 106, first dorsal height 2 3/4 in total head 
length; A. 95 (damaged), anterior rays apparently short; pseudocaudal 
indistinct; pectoral ra 7 /s _I_, 14 to _I_j 18, fin 2 l/8 in total head; ventral 
rays I, 8, rarely I, 7, fin 2 2/5 in total head. 
Brown, head and belly blackish. Iris dark. Inside mouth and 
gill opening blackish. Vertical fins brownish, paired ones darker. 
East Indies, Philippines. In this species the ventrals inserted 
a little in advance of first dorsal origin. 
