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Diaphus ehrhorni new species 
Depth 3 7/8 to 4; head 3 1/2 to 3 3/5, width 2 to 2 1/5. Snout 
6 to 7 3/4 in head; eye 3 1/5 to 3 4/5, greater than snout and subequal 
with interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye but not quite to 
inclined hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 2/7 to 1 2/5 in head; 
interorbital 3 3/4 to 4, well convex. Gill rakers 7 {■ 13, lanceolate, 
1 2/5 in eye; gill filaments 3/4 gill rakers. 
Scales 36 or 37 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 
latter, but little enlarged, tubes simple, prominent; 3 above, 3 below, 
13 or 14 predorsal to occiput. Long pointed scale in ventral axil 2 l/4 in 
fin. Caudal with small scales basally. Scales with 4 to 7 basal radiating 
striae and 5 short imperfect apicals marginally, circuli very fine. 
