Cor 
aratrum Gilbert 
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Coryphaenoides aratrum Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
vol. 23, pt. 2, p. 674, fig. 264, 1903 (1905) (type 
locality: off southern Oahu, in 289 to 337 fathoms; 
Pailolo Channel, in 297 to 306 fathoms)• —- Gilbert and 
Hubbs , Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 100, vol. 1, p. (432) 
515, 1920 (reference). — Fowler , Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 
10, p. 86, 1928 (type), 
Coryphaenoides paralielus (not Gunther ) Gilbert and 
Cramer , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, p. 421, 1897 
(Hawaiian Islands, in 313 fathoms). 
Depth 6 l/5 to 6 l/2; head 3 l/lO to 3 l/2, width 2 to 2 l/lO. Snout 
to eye 2 in head; eye 5 3/4 to 5 7/8, 2 3/4 to 3 in snout, 1 l/3 to 12/5 
in interorbital; orbit 3 7/8 to 4 3/4 in head, 1 2/3 to 2 l/4 in snout, 
subequal to slightly greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/5 to 2/3 
in eye, length from front end 4 l/lO to 4 l/3 in head; mandibular barbel l/2 
of eye; teeth in rather broad villiform bands, 6 or 8 irregularly transversely 
interorbital 4 to 4 l/3 in head, low, but very little convex. Gill rakers 1 
+ 6 or 7 low spinescent tubercles on second arch, l/4 of gill filaments, which 
1 2/5 in eye. 
Scales 75 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 6 above, 15 below, 10 predorsa] 
forward to occiput and 25 more still forward to snout tip. Scales with 3 to 5 
