deepsea coffinfish - heads
Heads of a 6 cm male (left) and a 7 cm female C. melanostomus trawled at a depth between 1460 m and 1700 m, off north-west Cape, Western Australia, January 1991 (AMS I.31151-004). The arrows point to the ilicium of both fish.

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