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1729 
Depth 5 1/2; head 3 1/4, width 2 1/4. Snout 4 4/5 in 
head; eye 5 3/5, 1 1/5 in snout, 1 1/5 in interorbital; max¬ 
illary reaches far behind eye but not to inclined hind pre- 
opercle edge, slender, length 1 1/2 in head; interorbital 4 1/2. 
Gill rakers 5? - 10?, lanceolate, little greater than gill 
filaments or 1 1/2 in eye. 
Scales all fallen, but from pockets estimated about 28? 
in lateral line. 
On back 2 photophores, first close below front of dorsal 
fin, second close behind base of dorsal fin and though none • 
evident below adipose fin base; single antorbital superiorly/ 
1 opercular little above hind end of maxillary and behind pre- 
opercle edge; most of other photophores obsolete or lost. 
D. origin much nearer snout tip than caudal base, about 6 
branched rays; A. begins opposite first third of dorsal base; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; pectoral nearly 
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reaches opposite dorsal origin and 1 3/4 in head; ventral 2 
3/4. 
