. Text-fig. 3. a, Neoscopelarchoides sp. late larval stage ( = Benthalbella infans) (X2): a', lingual teeth (xo/3); b, Neoscopelarchoides elongates (Norman). Specimen from station 391 (x 1-3); b', lingual teeth (xg-j). Neoscopelarchoides sp. (Text-fig. 3 a, a'.) This specimen of a late larval stage was taken by 'Discovery II' off the Azores. Station 3051 (lat. 390 29' N, long. 90 50'W), 26. viii. 52. Net TYF (young fish trawl), hauled obliquely between 700 m. and the surface. Body proportions in hundredths of the standard length (60-5 mm.). Greatest depth of body 13-2; length of head 15
. Text-fig. 3. a, Neoscopelarchoides sp. late larval stage ( = Benthalbella infans) (X2): a', lingual teeth (xo/3); b, Neoscopelarchoides elongates (Norman). Specimen from station 391 (x 1-3); b', lingual teeth (xg-j). Neoscopelarchoides sp. (Text-fig. 3 a, a'.) This specimen of a late larval stage was taken by 'Discovery II' off the Azores. Station 3051 (lat. 390 29' N, long. 90 50'W), 26. viii. 52. Net TYF (young fish trawl), hauled obliquely between 700 m. and the surface. Body proportions in hundredths of the standard length (60-5 mm.). Greatest depth of body 13-2; length of head 15-4; diameter of forward lens-containing part of eye 4-1; length of snout 6-6; width of bony interorbital i-o; length of lower jaw 15-3; length from tip of snout to origin of dorsal fin 38-8; snout to origin of adipose dorsal fin 57-8; snout to anterior ray of pectoral fin 18-2; snout to anterior ray of pelvic fin 33-5; snout to origin of anal fin 64-4; depth of caudal peduncle 4-5; length of caudal peduncle 12-4. Fin-rays. D. 9, A. 22, Pect. 24, Pv. 9. As shown in Text-fig. 3 a the eyes are tubular and are directed forward and upward. Dentition. About thirty small, pointed, retrorse teeth on premaxilla. Mandible with about twenty outer, small, upright pointed teeth; seven inner, long and slender teeth, all but the first with a tiny wooos HOLE. v MASS. /
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