Coryphaenoides serrulatus

Günther, Albert C. L. G., 1878, Preliminary notices of deep-sea fishes collected during the voyage of the H. M. S. “ Challenger ”, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 (2), pp. 17-28 : 26-27

Coryphaenoides serrulatus .

The projecting part of the snout is short, with an obtuse upper edge, and with a rough tubercle in the middle. The cleft of the mouth extends to below the middle of the eye, which is comparatively large. The teeth of the outer series are visibly stronger than the remainder. Barbel about as long as the eye. The interorbital space is flat, its width rather less than the vertical diameter of the eye. The scales are equally rough over the whole of their surface, the spinelets being subequal in size, densely packed, closely adpressed to the scale, and not arranged in series. There are seven scales in a transverse series between the first dorsal and the lateral line. Second dorsal spine finely and closely serrate in front. The second dorsal fin commences at a considerable distance from the first, the distance being equal to the length of the head.

North-east of New Zealand (Station 169), 700 fathoms.