582 
Bathygadus sulcatus G ILBERT and HUBBS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 51, p. 142, 1916 (reference); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 
100* v °l*'1> P* (380) 390, 1920 (type; between Marinduque and 
i ' fcuzon; near Cagayan Island; off northern Mindanao; between 
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Siquijor and Bohol; 340 to 530 fathoms). 
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Depth 7; head 42/3, width 2 l/3. Snout 3 3/5 in head from snout 
e ye 4 l/2» 1 2/5 in snout, 1 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 
opposite hind eye edge, length 1 4/5 in head from snout tip; no barbel; 
teeth in villiform bands, uniform, 10 to 12 transversely irregular series 
above, lower bands narrower and transversely 7 or 8 irregular series; 
interorbital 5, low, unevenly convex. Gill rakers 5 + 16 on first arch, 
lanceolate, 1 3/4 in eye; gill filaments l/2 of gill rakers. 
Scales 154 in lateral line, of which 24 or 26 forward of vent, 
lateral line falling little below middle of body depth above anal; 6 above, 
16 below, 38 predorsal. Scales very caducous, mostly fallen, thin, nearly or 
qaiue as larj^e on head as on body. Scales entire, cycloid, without striae; 
circuli very fine, form angles at medial or horizontal axis basally. 
10 - 105, second simple ray (broken) 2 l/5? in total head 
length; A. 88, much lower than dorsal anteriorly; pseudocaudal rather long, 
Slender, l/2 of eye; pectoral rays 15, length 1 l/2 in head; ventral ^ 
8, fin 1 7/8 in head, origin before pectoral origin and forms inclined line 
to first dorsal origin, which most posterior of three. 
