1560 
Bathylaco nigricans Goode and Bean 
Bathylaco nigricans GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 
, ♦ * * 
1895, p. 57, pi. 18, fig. 69. Blake Station XXXIX, 
off Santa Cruz, 2393 fathoms. — JORDAN and EVERMANN, 
4 9 - •* * * 
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 1, 1896, p. 540 
(copied). 
Depth 6 3/5; head 3 3/4. Snout 7 1/4 in head from snout 
tip; eye 4 1/4, greater than snout; premaxillary extends 1 2/3 
eye diameters behind eye, expansion 1 3/4 in eye, length 1 2/5 
in head from snout tip; interorbital. 4 1/3, low. 
* B 
D. 20, height 2? in total head length; A. 11, height 3 
l/4?, inserted last third of dorsal base; caudal forked?; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 1/5; pectoral 5?; ventral damaged. 
* 
* 
Black. . Length 213 mm. (Goode and Bean.} 
Atlantic Ocean. 
