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Diaphus nipponensis Gilbert 
Diaphus nipponensia GILBERT. Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 2, 
August 1913, p. 86. South of Kagoshima, N. Lat. 30°34» 
E. Long. 129°22*, in 300 fathoms. —PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. 
Collection, vol. 3, art. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 116 (reference); Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 76, art. 10, 1930, p. 31, fig. 15 (type). 
Depth 31/4; head 2 7/8, width 2. Snout 4 in head from its tip; 
eye 3 3/4, greater than snout, subequal with front of interorbital; 
maxillary extends well beyond eye, though not quite to well inclined hind 
preopercle edge, slender, length 1 1/3 in head from snout tip; inter¬ 
orbital 3 3/4, convex. Gill rakers about 7 f. 10?, lanceolate, slender, 
greater than gill filaments or less than half of eye. 
Scales 36 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter, none 
enlarged, moderate, tubes distinct. Scales rather adherent, though number 
now fallen. 
