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Scopelopsis^multipunctatus _ Brauer 
Scopelopsis multipunctatus BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Sxp. Valdivia , 
vol. 5, Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, p. 145, text fig. 71. Cape Colony 
(S. Lat. 33°23*4** 3. Long. 16 U 19»4", in 2000 meters). —BARNARD, 
Ann. South Afric. Hus., vol. 21, pt. 1, June 1925, p. 246 (off 
Gape Point, in 800 to 1000 fathoms; off Cape Morgan, in 480 
fathoms; Agulhas Bank). —PARR, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, 
vol. 3, art. 3, Dec. 1928, p. 49 (compiled). —NORMAN, Discovery 
Hop., vol. 2, 1930, p. 318 (S. 33°50* to 34°13» E. 16°4* to 15°49’, 
850 to 950 meters). 
Depth 4 3/4 to 5; heed 3 l/5 to 3 3/4. Snout 4 1/3 in head, with median 
ridge; eye 3 1/3 to 3 7/8, slightly greater than snout in young to nearly 2 
in snout with age, 1 l/3 in interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye, 
length 1 3/5 in head; interorbital low. 
Scales 37 or 38 in lateral line, 3 above, 4 below. 
Photophores 1 below each scale over whole body, similar ones around orbit, 
on lower jaw, branchiostegal membrane; isthmus and caudal fin; with age 
♦ 
elongate luminous patch on upper edge of caudal peduncle between adipose fin 
and caud8l fin base. 
