1555 
Bathysaurus obtuslrostrls VAILLANT, Exped. Sci. 
, T ‘ 
Travailleur et Talisman, Poiss., 1888, p. 136, pi. 
* 
10, figs. 2, a-g, pi. 16, fig. 3. Off Cape Verde 
Islands, 3655 meters. 
Depth 5 1/2 to 7; head 3 1/4 to 4, width 2 to 2 2/5. 
Snout 2 7/8 to 3 in head frpm snout tip; eye 5 3/5 to 9, 1 
3/4 to 3 in snout, 1 to 1 3/4 in interorbltal; premaxillary 
extends 1 to 2 eye diameters behind eye, length 1 1/2 to 1 
3/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 5.1/5 to 5 1/3, 
largely level, with deep median depression. Gill rakers as 
row of numerous fine short.denticles, greatly less than gill 
filaments, which equal eye. 
