. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 308 DISCOVERY REPORTS Body proportions in hundredths of the standard length (70 mm.). Greatest depth of body 24-3; length of head 257; horizontal diameter of eye 8-6; length of snout 7-1; width of bony interorbital 2-6; length of lower jaw 21-4; maxilla 17-8; length from tip of snout to origin of dorsal fin 40; snout to adipose dorsal fin 757; snout to pectoral fin 28-6; snout to pelvic fin 47-1; snout to anal fin 61-4; length of pectoral fin 257; length of pelvic fin 12-1; length of caudal pedu
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 308 DISCOVERY REPORTS Body proportions in hundredths of the standard length (70 mm.). Greatest depth of body 24-3; length of head 257; horizontal diameter of eye 8-6; length of snout 7-1; width of bony interorbital 2-6; length of lower jaw 21-4; maxilla 17-8; length from tip of snout to origin of dorsal fin 40; snout to adipose dorsal fin 757; snout to pectoral fin 28-6; snout to pelvic fin 47-1; snout to anal fin 61-4; length of pectoral fin 257; length of pelvic fin 12-1; length of caudal peduncle 14-3 ; depth of caudal peduncle 9-3. Body compressed; greatest breadth (at pectoral girdle) 14-3. Fin-rays. D. 9, A. 21, Pect. 21, Pv. 9. Scaling. Large cycloid scales on opercula; probably also present on cheeks. Scales over the trunk and tail well ossified, with a shiny, armoured appearance: cycloid. Scale rows between lateral line and origin of dorsal fin 4; between lateral line and origin of anal fin 7. Number of scales along lateral line (to caudal flexure) 43. Lateral line scales only slightly enlarged, about 1-2 times as deep as those immediately adjacent. Vertebrae. Dentition. About fifty-five small, pointed retrorse teeth on premaxilla. Dentary with about thirty outer, smallish, pointed teeth and 9-10 inner, larger, and depressible teeth of which the second and third are the largest. The first six of these teeth are barbed. Palatine teeth arranged in two closely adjacent rows, each consisting of 5-6 teeth. Lingual teeth ten, the first longest, the rest gradually decreasing in Text-fig. 1. Scopelarchus cavei. Holotype (x 1-3). Colour (in spirit). General body colour yellowish brown, the dorsal surface darker, with a fairly dense peppering of small melanophores covering the upper half of the flank-area above the lateral line. Immediately behind each eye is a black lunate area. Dorsal, anal, pelvic and caudal fins trans- parent or whitish. The pectoral fi
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