9 •f FIELDIANA • ZOOLOGY Published by CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Volume 39 April 22, 1959 No. 29 Deep Sea Fishes from the Gulf of Mexico With the Description of a New Species Squalogadus intermedins (Macrouroididae) Marion Grey Associate, Division of Fishes The extensive exploration undertaken in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has at times reached deep water, and some of the fishes collected have been sent to Chicago Natural History Museum for identification. Among these are a new species of Squalogadus, several new records for the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic, and some forms rarely caught and therefore deserving of notice. The figures are the work of the following artists: Miss Carolyn Reusch, Mr. Tom Dolan, and Mr. John Pfiffner, Staff Artist of Chicago Natural History Museum. Family MYXINIDAE Paramyxine springeri Bigelow and Schroeder One specimen. Station 1006, 24° 20' N., 83° 20' W., April 13, 1954, in 190 fathoms (348 meters). Family SCYLIORHINIDAE Apristurus riveri Bigelow and Schroeder One specimen, 276 mm. Station 1426, 29° 07' N., 87° 54' W., September 24, 1955, in 600 fathoms (1098 meters). Previously known only from the type, taken off the north coast of Cuba (ca. 23° N., 80° W.) in 580 fathoms (1060 meters). Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-10696 il C lUt No. 872 323 f.;;Y 2 2 1953 u i NATURAL 1 ' '" '-' W 7 1959 HISTORY SURVEY
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