Sirembo Messieri

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 : 19-20

Sirembo Messieri .

Head oblong, deeper than broad, the snout being rather produced, rounded, overlapping the lower jaw. Eye of moderate size, one sixth of the length of the head, its diameter being two thirds of the length of the snout, and less than the width of the flat interorbital space. The maxillary extends behind the eye; prseoperculum without spines. Scales minute, leaving the snout naked. Vertical fins rather low, the dorsal beginning above the extremity of the pectoral. The distance between the vent and root of the ventrals is much more than the length of the head ; the ventrals are inserted behind the angle of the prseoperculum, very close together, and do not extend so far backwards as the pectorals. Uniform brown, with black fins.

Off Middle Island, Messier Strait (Station 306), 345 fathoms .