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Coryphaenoides burragei (Gilbert). 
Macrourus burragei Gilbert , Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 
pt. 2, p. 668, fig. 260, 1903 (1905) (type locality: off 
southern Oahu, 294 to 330 fathoms). 
Macrurus ( Macrurus ) burragei Brauer , Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. 
Valdivia, vol. 15, p. 389, 1906 (reference). 
Lionurus burragei Gilbert and Hubbs , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 
51, p. 146, 1916 (reference). 
Coryphaenoides burragei Fowler , Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 
p. 86, 1928 (compiled). 
Depth 5 4/5; head 5 1/2, width 1 2/3. Snout 4 1/4 in head; eye 3 
1/4, greatly exceeds snout or interorbital; preoral region short and 
a 
nearly vertical, about equals eye; maxillary reaches 1/4 in eye, length 
from front end 3 in head; mandibular barbel 1 1/2 in eye; teeth in 
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rather broad villiform bands in jaws, 9 or 10 in irregular transverse 
series; interorbital 4 in head, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 2+7, low 
spinous tubercles on second arch, l/2 of gill filaments, which 2 l/3 in 
eye 
Scales 130 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 14 above, 23 below, 40 
predorsal of which 23 forward opposite hind eye edge. Scales with about 
13 or 14 nearly parallel rows of rather long slender apical spinules, 
last well extended beyond hind scale edge; circuli moderate, obscure 
apically. 
