2191 
Diaphus holti TAANING, Rep. Danish Oceanogr. Exp. Med., No. 5, 
vol. 2, A. 7, 1918, p. (27) 88, figs. 35-36. Mediterranean and 
Bay of Cadiz; Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kobenhavn, 
vol. 86, 1928, p. 60 (North Atlantic and Mediterranean; diagnosis 
in key). 
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Diaphus mollis TAANING, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kobenhavn 
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vol. 86, 1928, p. 60. North Atlantic; diagnosis in key. 
Depth 3 3/4 to 4 1/4; head 3 to 3 1/4, width '%> to 2 1/5. Snout in 
profile 7 1/2 to 9 1/2 in head; eye 3 to 3 2/5, greater than snout or 
interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye though not quite to oblique 
hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 2/5 to 1 2/3 in head; interorbital 
3 1/2 to 3 2/3, convex. Gill rakers 5 to 7 f 13 to 16, lanceolate, 1 l/3 
to 1 1/2 in eye; gill filaments 2/5 gill rakers. 
Scales 36 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter, enlarged 
or not, narrowly imbricated, simple tubes well developed though little 
exposed; 3 above, 3 below, 9 to 11 predorsal forward to occiput. Scales 
adherent, firm. Caudal base scaly. Ventral axillary scale'3 1/4 in fin. 
Scales with 3 basal radiating striae and 5 or 6 irregular marginals 
apically; circuli rather fine. 
