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Parr 
Maphus problematicxis PARE, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, 
vol. 5, art. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 143, fig. 32. N. 24° W. 77°17», 
6000 feet, Bahamas; N. 24°29* W. 77°29», 8000 feet. 
Depth 4 1/4; head 3 2/5. Snout 6 in head; eye 5, greater than snout; 
maxillary extends 13/4 eye diameters behind eye, length 1 2/5 in head; 
interorbital high. 
Scales 37 or 38 in lateral line, scales not conspicuously enlarged on 
tail. 
Two distinct, rounded and well separated antorbitals on each side, one 
above and 1 below nostril connected by usual strand of black tissue; 2 
operculars upper in slightly inclined line from lower eye edge to upper 
subpectoraj;5 pectorals, first interspace longest, fourth spot over interval 
between third and fifth pectorals and elevated level with upper subpectoral; 
1 suprapectoral near lowest third in space between lateral line and pectoral 
fin origin; 2 subpectorals, first little nearer first pectoral with which in 
line and upper spot close before bases of lowest pectoral rays; 5 ventrals, 
second and third elevated in little inclined with first; 1 supraventral, 
midway between lateral line and ventral fin base; anals 6 f 5 or 6, first and 
last anteroanals little elevated, posteroanals behind anal fin base; 3 supra- 
anals, median nearer lowest, third diameter below lateral line; 1 posterolateral 
1 diameter below lateral line; 4 precaudals, equidistant in curve with fourth 
1 diameter below end of lateral line. Suprapectoral with luminous scale. 
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