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Depth 4 5/5; head 3 1/3. Snout 6 3/4 in head; eye 2 9/10, greater 
than snout; maxillary extends 1/2 eye diameter behind eye, slender, length 
1 2/5 in head; interorbital very low. 
Scales 39 in lateral line, cycloid. 
Small antorbital luminous body slightly below middle of front eye edge; 
2 opercular photophores, upper larger, in slightly upward inclined line 
from lower eye edge to pectoral fin origin; 3 branchiostegals; 5 pectorals, 
first interval much longest, all level except last which little elevated 
before ventral fin origin; 1 suprapectoral, little below lateral line, 
slightly before subpectorals; 2 subpectorals, rather close, one above other, 
upper close before bases of lower pectoral rays; 5 or 6 ventrals, level; 
1 supraventral, midway between lateral line and ventral fin base; anals 
7 \ 2, last 2 or 3 anteroanals behind anal fin base, all anals level; 3 
supraanels, in very slightly angulate series also slightly inclined from 
vertical, first and second nearly in line with last ventral and equi¬ 
distant, upper slightly advanced from median and close below lateral line; 
1 posterolateral, close below lateral line little advanced from last 
anteroanal; 3 wide set precaudals, third at end of lateral line and 
slightly behind second which level with first. Long supracaudal and 
infracaudal luminous plates, latter extends from last anteropnals to first 
precaudal. 
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