Abstract
The Research Vessel/Cape St. Mary of the Fisheries Research Station, Hong Kong, has made series of deep-water Agassiz trawls over the northern part of the South China Sea during the past years. As a result, an adequate collection of deepwater forms of the Brotulidae is now available for a review of the family in the area. The present paper is the first of a series of studies on this collection of brotulids. It involves the proposal of a new genus and species, which was tentatively identified by the author (CHAN, 1965) as a Barathronus species in a list of fishes associated with the occurance of an anacanthobatid skate.
