. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Marine Hatchetfishes ⢠Baird 103. â igure 79. Polyipnus kiwiensis; R/V TUI; New Zealand; SL 60 mm. ^'ery reduced pigment bar; much reduced light stripe behind bar does not reach mid- ilorsal Hne; ventral border of dorsal pig- nent raised above supra-anal photophores; >mall dark pigment spots present on lateral nidline. Holotype: measurements (mm): SL , BD , JL , CP ; mcristics: GR L8, D 12, A 17; anal photophores 9; name: lamed in honor of New Zealand's national iport, rugby. Distribution (Fig. 63)
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Marine Hatchetfishes ⢠Baird 103. â igure 79. Polyipnus kiwiensis; R/V TUI; New Zealand; SL 60 mm. ^'ery reduced pigment bar; much reduced light stripe behind bar does not reach mid- ilorsal Hne; ventral border of dorsal pig- nent raised above supra-anal photophores; >mall dark pigment spots present on lateral nidline. Holotype: measurements (mm): SL , BD , JL , CP ; mcristics: GR L8, D 12, A 17; anal photophores 9; name: lamed in honor of New Zealand's national iport, rugby. Distribution (Fig. 63). Kno\vn only from I few small captures off Wellington, New Zealand, and west of the Kermadec Islands. ^olyipnus kiwiensis n. sp. Figure 79 Motype DMNZ 4802; 36° 50'S, 176° lO'E- 9/26/62; R/V TUI. Species distinction. Differs from P. isteroides (p. 99) group by photophore characteristics and teeth on posterior omcrine shaft; from P. matsuharai by gill aker number and dorsal pigment char- icteristics (F. matsuharai, p. 101); from P. â uggeri (p. 102) by dorsal pigment char- icteristics, eye size, gill raker number, caudal peduncle, and interorbital crests; differs from P. meteori by its higher gill raker counts, larger eye and mouth, photo- phore and dorsal pigment characteristics. Description. D. (11) 12; A. 16-17; P. 15-16; gill rakers 16-17; vertebrae (32) 33 (34). Largest specimens less than 70 mm SL; body broad, tapering rather abruptly into short caudal peduncle; its depth about equal to its length; post-temporal spine short, less than one-fourth the diameter of orbit; dorsal spine short, preopercle spine triangulate; eyes extremely large, their diameter less than seven times into SL; greatest distance between frontal crests (interorbital), greater than length of sub- caudal photophore group; abdominal keel scales not extended ventrally; first and third supra-abdominal photophores about even and raised well above second; first supra-anal photophore noticeably low
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