Bathynectes gracilis

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 : 21

Bathynectes gracilis .

Head and the entire body and tail compressed and low; the latter produced into a long filament. Eye of moderate size, its diameter being contained five and a half times in the length of the head, and once and a half in that of the snout and in the width of the interorbital space, which is somewhat convex. The posterior nostrils especially are wide ; and the muciferous channel of the infraorbital ring shows in its course five or six wide sinuses. Mouth very wide, extending far behind the eye, with the extremity of the maxillary much dilated. Vomerine band of teeth V-shaped, with the two arms of the figure straight; palatine band narrow. The distance of the vent from the root of the ventrals is more than the length of the head.

South of New Guinea (Station 184), 1400 fathoms.