822. 
Macrurus cracilicauda Ganum, Man* Mus. Comp* Zool., vol♦ 24, p* 
m mwmmm" Stmmmmm 11 m< mnrnmmmm* mt —w mmmwm 
206 (397), pi* H, fig. 1, 1899 (type locality ; lat. 7 # 31 , 30"N., 
long* 79®14 , W., 458 fathoms; Gulf of Panama, 286 fathoms). 
Macrurus (Macrurus) graeillioauda Brauer , Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. 
Valdivia , vol. 15, p. 388, 1906 (reference)* 
'“7 
Macrourus gracilicauda Jordan, Evermann, Clark , Rep. U. S. Comm. 
Fisher., pt* 2, p* 206, 1930 (reference)* 
Depth 5 1/3 to 6 l/8; head 4 l/2 to 5, width 1 2/3 to 2, 
Snout to eye 3 2/3 to 4 in head; eye 4 7/8 to 6 1/5, 1 l/5 to 1 
l/2 in snout, 1 to 1 1/4 in interorbital; orbit 3 3/5 to 4 in 
head, 1 l/5 times snout, 1 l/5 to 1 l/4 times interorbital; 
preoral profile oblique, straight, short, length 5 4/5 to 6 1/2 
in head; maxillary reaches 2/5 to 2/3 in eye, length 2 4/5 to 3 
l/8 in head; mandibular barbel 4 to 4 2/5; teeth in villifonn 
bands in jaws, in 4 or 5 irregular rows; interorbital 4 l/8 to 
5 in head, low, level. Gill rakers 0 or 1 + 7 to 10 low spines- 
cent tubercles on second arch, l/5 of gill filaments, which 1 1/2 
in orbit. 
Scales 130 to 155 in lateral line; 9 above 19 to 21 below, 
45 or 46 predorsal of which 25 forward opposite hind orbital edge* 
Scales with 13 to 18 close set irregular parallel apical series of 
long slender spinules, well or not extended beyond scale edge; 
circuli moderate, apparently not extended apically. 
