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C(?rj^i&en£ide s albatrossus (Townsend and Nichols) 
Macrourus albatrossus Townsend and Nichols , Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., vol. 42, p. 17, 1925 (type locality: lat. N. 31° W., 
southward of San Biego, California, in 1076 fathoms). — Jordan , 
Evermann, Clark, Rep. U. S. Coiran. Fisher., pt. 2, p. 260, 1928 
‘ 
(1930) (reference). 
Depth 6 3/4?j head 5 2/5?, width 2. Snout to eye 4 1/2 in head; 
eye 3 3/4, 1 in snout, 1 1/4 times interorbital; orbit 3 in head, twice 
snout, twice interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite 1/2 of orbit, 
length from front end 2 l/8 in head; mandibular symphysis with small 
knob protuding below; mandibular barbel?; interorbital 6 4/5 in head, 
low, nearly level. Gill rakers 2+9, low spinescent knobs, 2 1/2 in 
gill filaments, which 1/3 of orbit. 
Scales 120?, though only 60 counted far as intact portion of tail; 
9 above, 17 below, 25 predorsal forward until opposite hind edge of orbit. 
4 
Scales with 6 or 7 nearly parallel apical keels, spinuliferous, last 
spinules not extending behind scale edge; circuli fine, complete* 
D. II, 11 
? at least, second cimjS i lrc ray slender, pungent, 
front edge with row of small antrorse serrae, length 1 4/5 in head; 
interdorsal space 1 2/3 in orbit; A* 80? or more, fin height 1 1/2? 
; pectoral rays I, 14, fin 1 2/3 in head; ventral 
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fin 1 2/3. 
