. Fig. 37. Prionodraco evansii. x Hab. South Orkneys; Mac-Robertson Land; Queen Mary Land; South Victoria Land. The types of the species, 11 specimens, measuring up to 132 mm. in total length, are from the Ross Sea (74° 25' S, 179° 3' E), 290 metres; and the entrance to McMurdo Sound (76° 56' S, 164° 12' E and 77° 13' S, 164° 18' E), 300 and 380 metres. In addition to the types and the examples obtained by the Discovery Committee, the above description includes a number of specimens, up to 145 mm. in total length, collected by the Antarctic Research Expedition. Genus CYGNODRACO Cygnod
. Fig. 37. Prionodraco evansii. x Hab. South Orkneys; Mac-Robertson Land; Queen Mary Land; South Victoria Land. The types of the species, 11 specimens, measuring up to 132 mm. in total length, are from the Ross Sea (74° 25' S, 179° 3' E), 290 metres; and the entrance to McMurdo Sound (76° 56' S, 164° 12' E and 77° 13' S, 164° 18' E), 300 and 380 metres. In addition to the types and the examples obtained by the Discovery Committee, the above description includes a number of specimens, up to 145 mm. in total length, collected by the Antarctic Research Expedition. Genus CYGNODRACO Cygnodraco, Waite, 1916, Austral. Antarct. Exped. Set. Rep., Ser. C, in (i), Fishes, p. 32. Type Cygnodraeo mawsoni, Waite. Body elongate, compressed, naked; two lateral lines, the upper terminating below posterior part of dorsal fin, the lower represented by a broken series of depressed, non- perforate scales, running along middle of hinder part of body. Head scarcely depressed; snout produced, spatulate; interorbital region narrow; jaws with bands of small, villiform teeth. Operculum with upper edge concave, armed with divergent ridges ending in spinous points; gill-rakers represented by very small, flat, dentigerous knobs; gill-membranes free from the isthmus but slightly united anteriorly. Dorsal with 61 to 66 rays; anal with 35 to 38 rays. Pelvics rather long and narrow, as long as or longer than the pectorals. A single species. Coasts of the Antarctic Continent.
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