698. 
Coryphaenoides c^rminiger (Garman) 
Macrurus Carminifer Garman, Mam. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 24, p. 2©4 
(397), pi. 46, fig. 2 (type locality; lat. 7 < *15 , N., long. 79°36«W., 
1020 fathoms; Gulf of Panama; 322 to 730 fathoms). 
Macrurus (Macrurus) carminifer Brauer, Deutsch. Tiefsee Expedition, 
Valdivia, vol. 15, p. 389, 1906 (reference). 
Macrourus carminifer Jordan, Evermann, Clark, Rep. U. S. Coram. 
Fisher., pt. 2, p. 206, 1930 (reference). 
Depth 5 4/5; head 5, width 1 3/4. Snout to eye 3 in head; 
eye 5 l/4, 1 4/5 in snout, 1 2/5 in interorbital; orbit 3 4/5 in 
head, 1 1/8 in snout, 1 in interorbital; preoral profile little 
inclined from vertical, straight, length 6 3/5 in ha ad; maxillary 
reaches opposite front of eye, length from front end 3 1/5 in head; 
mandibular barbel l/2 in orbit; teeth in fine villiform bands in jaws, 
4 to 6 irregular rows transversely; interorbital 3 2/5 in head, low, 
nearly level or slightly depressed. Gill rakers 1+8 low spinescent 
tubercles on second arch, l/2 of gill filaments, which 3 l/2 in orbit. 
Scales 125 in lateral line; 11 above, 19 below, 46 predorsal 
of -which 25 forward until opposite hind orbital edge. Scales with 
12 rows of parallel long apical spinules, last extended well behind 
scale edge; circuli moderate, complete. 
D. II, 9 87 f rays broken though second frTn'pJ one with row 
of antrorse denticles along its front edge; interdorsal space 2 in head 
