715 . 
£orvj3haenoides dubius (Smith and Hade 1 iffe) 
Macrourus dubius Smith and Radcliffe , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 
45, p. 117, pi. 25, fig. 5, 1912 (type locality j Iligan Bay, 
Mindanao, 410 fathoms). 
Coryphaenoides dubius Gilbert and liubbs, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
^mmrnmrn m win* ■ Krnmmmmmmmrnm nflMMii h i i 'mmmrnm+m mmtm m iw—1 a wiriiu mmimn m 
vol. 51, p. 144, 191G (reference); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 
100, vol. 1, p. 409, 1920 (type). 
Depth 5 5/S; head 4 l/4, width 2. Snout to eye 3 in head; 
eye 8, 2 1/2 in snout, 1 4/5 in interorbital; orbit 5 in head, 1 
l/2 in snout, 1 l/8 in interorbital; maxillary reaches l/2 in 
orbit, length from front end 2 7/8 in head; mandibular barbel 
thick and fleshy basally, 1 l/2 in orbit; teeth in villiform 
bands in .jaws, of 5 or 6 irregular series transversely; interor¬ 
bital 5 in head, low, slightly convex. Gill rakers 0+7 low 
spinescent tubercles on second arch, l/4 of gill filaments, which 
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l/2 of orbit. 
Scales 100 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 8 above, 15 
below, 16 or 17 forward to occiput. Scales apically with broad 
area of 35 to 40 rows of close set parallel apical spinules, last 
of which extended slightly beyond hind edge of scale; circuli fine, 
basal. 
D. II, 
9—73, 
second 
slender 
# 
with front edge 
finely denticulated, length 1 3/5 in head; interdorsal space 7; 
90, fin height 3 l/2; pseudocaudal (broken) 6?, pectoral I_, 20, 
1 3/4 in head; ventral I, 7, fin 1 2/5. 
A. 
fin 
