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Body dark brown, skin sprinkled with darker dots, scale pockets 
dusky or darker# Adherent scales, sides of head and iris silvery white, 
with bright iridescent tints, purplish on opercles. Fins all very 
light brown to whitish, articulations of rays darker. 
Hawaiian Islands. This species as sketched by Parr does not agree 
with the types as he shows 3 supraanal photophores, the first and second 
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surely wrongly placed. Where he indicates a second it should be slightly 
advanced from the plane with the last ventral and the uppermost supraanal. 
The first is surely an erroneous interpolation. The figure in question 
further omits the oparculars. That the supraanals were important features 
in Gilbert’s mind is shown in his subsequent remarks as he calls attention 
to "the presence of but 2 (instead of 3) supra-anals" and even goes so 
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far as to suggest it may be the type of a new genus "distinguished by the 
absence of preocular photophores", a mistaken premise as Parr has shown. 
47709 U. S. N. M. Albatross Collection (3472). Length 103 to 187 mm. 
-Type (largest) and 2 paratypes. 
47717 U. S. N. M. Albatross Collection (8407). Length 58 mm., caudal 
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tips damaged. 
