Macrurus longirostris, Bloch, 1786

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 : 23-24

Macrurus longirostris .

Allied to Macrurus trachyrhynchus . The snout is produced into a long flattened process, pointed anteriorly, and not quite twice as long as the large eye. Scales of the body with smooth surface, but with from three to seven spinelets on the margin. They are rather irregularly arranged, there beingfour in a transverse series between the lateral line and dorsal fin. A series of projecting triangular spines along each side of the neck and the base of the anterior portion of the dorsal fin ; a similar series along each side of the base of the anal extends much further backwards than the dorsal series, and, anteriorly, is lost on the side of the abdomen. These spines have smooth edges (not denticulated as in M. trachyrhynchus ).

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