815 
Depth 7 to 7 l/5; head 5 to 5 l/8, -width 2 l/8 to 2 2/5. 
Snout 4 to 4 l/5 in head; eye 6 l/2, 1 3/5 to 1 3/4 in snout, 
1 2/5 to 1 l/2 in interorbital; predorsal short, vertical, less 
than 1 l/3 in eye; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, 
length from front end 2 l/4 to 2 l/3 in head; mandibular barbel 
4 1/2 to 4 7/8; teeth in villifom bands in jaws, above forming 
4 or 5 irregular rows with outer enlarged all around and lower 
row single enlarged row; interorbital 4 1/8 to 4 2/3, low, 
depressed or only very slightly convex. Gill rekers 2 11, low 
spinescent tubercles on second arch, 2 l/5 in gill filaments, 
which 2 l/5 in eye. 
Scales (pockets) 150 in lateral line; 8 above, 17 to 19 be¬ 
low, 45 predorsal forward to front of snout, of which 30? forward 
opposite hind eye edge. Scales with 7 parallel apical spinulifer- 
out ridges, last spinules extended behind scale edge; circuli 
moderate, complete. 
D. II , 9-113, second simple ray slender, front edge with row 
A 
of antrorse denticles, length 1 2/5 to 1 3/5 in head; interdorsal 
space 2 3/4 to 3 l/5; A. 118, fin height 3 l/3 to 4 l/4 in head; 
pectoral I, 16 to I, 19, fin 1 3/5 to 1 2/3 in head; ventral rays 
JS&;- 255 
I, 8, fin 1 1/4 to 1 1/2. 
Brown, head often paler. Iris gray. Inside mouth paler. 
I * 
Inside gill opening blackish brown# Hind edges of gill openings 
blackish brown# Fins all pale# 
Western North Atlantic# Closely related to Coryphaenoides 
brevibarbis (Goode and Bean), differing chiefly in tis large bar¬ 
bel # always exceeding the eye# Thus the figure by Goode and Bean 
of their Chalinura Simula is misleading# as it shows a very short 
barbel# 
