. The deep-sea fishes [of the Hawaiian Islands]. Albatross (Steamer); Fishes. FISHKS OK HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 585 Family NETTASTOMIII.^:. Metopomycter, new ijcnus. Like A'?ttostoHi« in all respects, except tin- poMitimi and .e (jf NclliiisloiiKi, N. iiifhiiinriiiii, the jiosterior nostril is located in front of the eye, on a level with its u|pper margin. Mt tutioiiii/rti r (iilhcrl, new jicniis nf ^\< [ift nliriUafifs). Metopomycter denticulatus, new species. Fig. Type, nun. long, from station 411111, vicinity of Kauai, di'pth 4(19 to .').â )() I'atlioms; tyj)e, Xo. r,
. The deep-sea fishes [of the Hawaiian Islands]. Albatross (Steamer); Fishes. FISHKS OK HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 585 Family NETTASTOMIII.^:. Metopomycter, new ijcnus. Like A'?ttostoHi« in all respects, except tin- poMitimi and .e (jf NclliiisloiiKi, N. iiifhiiinriiiii, the jiosterior nostril is located in front of the eye, on a level with its u|pper margin. Mt tutioiiii/rti r (iilhcrl, new jicniis nf ^\< [ift nliriUafifs). Metopomycter denticulatus, new species. Fig. Type, nun. long, from station 411111, vicinity of Kauai, di'pth 4(19 to .').â )() I'atlioms; tyj)e, Xo. r,L'191, U. S. Nat. Mus. Length of head and body 38 hundredths of the total. Length of head 34 of total length without tail; snout 13; eye 3; interorbital width 3; preoral length of vomer I; lip of vomer to angle of mouth 17; tip of vomer to front of posterior ; length of gill-slit '5; distance between gill-slits ; greatest depth of head 8; greatest width of head 7: distance from occiput ti^ front of dorsal 9. Head and body slender; tail tapering posteriorly, but ending .squarely at base of caudal; snout depressed, flattened above, its depth everywhere ei|naling or slightly exceeding its width; vomer pro- ^ â¢tfL;^!^. I bands, forming a shagreen-like surface, the inner series slightly larger, but still very small; band on vomer extending five-sixths the length of buccal cleft; maxillary extending beyond the eye a distance slightly exceeding half its diameter; tongue Dorsal tin beginning two-thirds diameter of eye in advance of gill-opening. General color olive-brown, growing darker toward tip of tail, and on head; snout, mandible, operdes, and area surrounding the vent, blue-black; a bluish tinge on abdomen and along base of anal fin; vertical fins translucent anteriorly with a light bluish tinge, becoming bhie-black jiosteriorly with a white edge; abdominal cavity lined with blackish. The type only is known. The sjiecies differs fro
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