155B 
Depth 8 1/4 to 8 2/5; head 3 1/8 to 4, width 2 1/8. 
Snout 3 4/5 to 4 3/5 In head from snou.t tip; eye 5 4/5 to 6 
1/4, 1 1/4 In snout, 1 1/8 to 1 1/4 In interorbital; premax- 
• illary reaches 1 2/3 to 1 4/5 eye diameters behind eye, 
length 1 2/5 to 1 1/2 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
4 3/4, low. 
Scales enlarged 40 to 50 in lateral line to caudal base 
and 2 more on latter; 10 above, 7 below, 8 rows on opercle. 
D. Ill, 12, I, first branched ray 1 1/6 to 1 1/3 in total 
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head, little less than first simple ray; adipose fin 5 2/3 to 
5 7/8; A. Ill, 8, I or II, 10, I, first branched 1 4/5 to 1 
5/6; caudal 1, in young 1 f 1/7, emarginate; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 4 2/3 to 5 1/10; pectoral 1 1/6; ventral 1 
1/8 to 1 1/3. 
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Whitish. Inside mouth, gill opening and lower parts of 
body black. Young with 14 narrow vertical bars, extending 
v/hole body depth; shorter bar in interspaces not extending 
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upwards above lateral line. Length 191 to 484 mm. (Gftnther.) 
Pacific Ocean. G-ftnther calls attention to the colora.tion 
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of the young as pattern extremely rare in deep sea fishes. 
