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Myctophum tenua BRAUER. Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia 
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vol. 15, Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, p. 162 {diagnosis in 
key). 
Myctophum affine (not LttTKEN) FOWLER, Mem. Bishop Mus., 
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vol. 10, 1928, p. 69, fig. 15. 
Depth 4 1/4; head 3 2/3, width 3. Snout 7 1/3 in head; 
eye 3 1/2, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary 
reaches back well beyond eye, nearly opposite well inclined 
hind preopercle edge, slender, length 1 2/5 in head; interor¬ 
bital 3 3/4, convex. Gill rakers 7 + 13, lanceolate, nearly 
equal eye; gill filaments 4/5 gill rakers. 
Scales 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on 
latter; enlarged in lateral line and tubes simple;- 3 above, 
5 below, 21 predorsal to occiput. Scales with 3 or 4 basal 
radiating striae; 7 or 8 broad, marginal apical points; cir¬ 
cuit fine, obsolete. 
