675 
—Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 24, p. 395, 1899 (reference). 
Macrurus (Chalinura) brevibarbis Murray and Hjort, Depths of the Ocean, 
p. 398, 1912 (lat. 45°26’N., long. 9 # 20‘W., 2570 fathoms). 
Coryphaenoides brevibarbus Gilbert and Hubbs , Proc. U. S. Rat. Mus., 
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vol. 51, p. 142, 1906 (reference). 
Depth 5 to 6; head 4 l/4 to 5, width 1 7/8 to 2. Snout 3 l/2 to 4 l/4 
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in head; eye 6 to 6 l/2, 1 2/5 in snout, 1 l/3 to 1 3/4 in interorbital; 
maxillary reaches 4/5 to or opposite hind eye edge, expansion 1 to 1 l/5 in 
eye, length from front end 2 l/4 to 2 2/5 in head; upper teeth in villiform 
band with 7 or 8 irregular rows transversely and outer row of enlarged 
curved canine like teeth; lower teeth in row of similar canines below, but 
no villiform teeth; interorbital 3 l/4 to 4 l/2 in head, low, convex. Gill 
rakers 0+9 low spinescent tubercles on second gill arches, 2 l/5 in. in gill 
filaments, which l/2 in eye. 
Scales (pockets) 100 to 124 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 7 or 87 
■ * ' 
above, 22 below. Scales with 7 or 8 slightly convergent apical series of 
spinules, last of which extend beyond scale edge; circuli moderate, fine. 
A> - 
complete 
D. II, 8_76 to 105?, second 
ray slender, with row of small 
antrorse serrae along front edge, length 1 l/3? to 1 2/5? in head; inter- 
4 
dorsal space 3 l/5 to 3 2/3; A. 82 to 110?, fin height 3; pectoral rays 
12 to I_, 15, fin 1 l/3 to 1 7/8 in head; ventral rays I, 8, fin 1 l/4 to 2. 
Largely uniform brown. Head paler, opercle and branchiostegal region 
gray to blackish. Iris gray. Inside mouth and gill opening black. 
Western North Atlantic. 
