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oped; head long, conical, pointed; eye small, well forward, over 

 the angle of the mouth; teeth small, villiform, subequal, in bands^ 

 on each jaw and a long patch on the vomer; tongue free at tip; 

 lips rather full, with a free margin behind, attached by a frenum 

 in front; lower jaw projecting; gill openings rather small, slit- 

 like, about as wide as base of pectorals and partly below them; 

 nostrils superior, well separated, the anterior with a slight tube; 

 vent close in front of anal; dorsal inserted at some distance 

 from the head, confluent with the anal around the tail; pectorals^ 

 well developed. Species found in most warm seas (the eastern 

 Pacific excepted) ascending streams, but mostly spawning in the 

 sea. (After Jordan and Evermann) 



101 Anguilla chrysypa Rafinesque 



Eel 



Anguilla chrisypa Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 120, Dec. 1817. Lake 

 George; Lake Cbaniplain; Hudson River above the falls. 



Anguilla vulgaris Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 360, 1815; 

 GooDE, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, pi. 239, 1884. 



Muraena hostoniensis Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 81, 1821. 



Anguilla tyrannus Girard, Ichth. U. S. Mex. Bdy. Surv. 75, pi. 40, 1859. 



Anguilla blephura Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 120, Dec. 1817. South' 

 shores of Long Island. 



Muraena rostrata Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 81, 1821. Cayuga 

 Lake. 



Anguilla tenuirostris De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 310, pi. 53, fig. 173, 1842. 



Anguilla rostrata De Kay, op. cit. 312, 1S42. Copied from Le Sueur. 

 Lakes Cayuga and Geneva, N. Y.; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 361, 1883; Bean, Fishes Penna. 95, pi. 30, fig. 58, 1893. 



Anguilla macrocephala De Kay, op. cit. 313, 1842. After Le Sueur. Sara- 

 toga Lake, N. Y. 



Anguilla bostoniensis Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 214, pi. XXXIII, fig. 1,1867. 



Anguilla ohrysypa Jordan & Davis, Rev. Apod. Fish. 668, 1892; Jordan & 

 Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 348, 1896, pi. LV, fig. 143. 



In the eel the body is elongated, roundish throughout most of 

 its extent, compressed behind. The scales are deeply embedded 

 and very irregularly placed, some at right angles to others. 

 The head is conical, elongated with pointed snout and small 

 eye, except in the male. The lower jaw is longer than the 

 upper. The jaws with small teeth in bands; a long patch of 

 teeth on the vomer. The gill openings are partly below the 



