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Geographical range: Brazil, Bermuda, Bahamas, Cuba, Marti- 

 nique, and Pensacola, Fla. 



Remarks: Ranzani (1840, p. 79, pi. 13, figs. l,a,b) described a 

 new species, Conger brasiliensis; however his species belongs with the 

 muraenesocid eels. Kaup (1856a) described a new conger as Conger 

 brasiliensis, which makes this name a junior primary homonym. 

 According to Article 36 of the International Rules of Zoological 

 Nomenclature, a rejected homonym can never be used again; there- 

 fore, I give Kaup's C. brasiliensis, a new name, C. triporiceps. This 

 name refers to the three supratemporal pores on the head, which is a 

 distinguishing character of this species. 



Kaup's (1856b, p. 114) description of C. occidentalis states vomerine 

 teeth 9, small and irregulai'ly spaced. The only species that has 

 such a few number of vomerine teeth is triporiceps; also, it has the 

 greatest number of compressed teeth (fig. 2). 



The head of one specimen (USNM 30710) was obtained from 

 Pensacola, Fla. It was identified as this species by the ossification 

 bridging across the sensory canal of the preorbital bone and the 

 numerous compressed teeth in the jaws. This is the only species in 

 the Atlantic that has the preorbital bone with ossification bridging 

 across the sensory canal. 



Conger myriaster (Brevoort) 



Figure 7; Plates 1,a, 3, a 



Anguilla myriaster Brevoort, 1856, p. 282, pi. 11, fig. 2 (type locality, Hakodate, 



Japan) . 

 Congromuraena myriaster Giinther, 1870, p. 40, footnote. 

 Ophiosoma? myriaster Bleaker, 1879, p. 26. 

 Conger japonica Bleeker, 1879, p. 32, pi. 2, fig. 2. 

 Conger myriaster Steindachner, 1896, p. 222, pi. 4, fig. 2. 

 Leptocephalus myriaster Jordan and Snyder, 1901, p. 849. — Tanaka, 1911, pi. 19, 



figs. 69, 70; pi. 20, fig. 77; 1912, p. 78.— Fowler, 1912, p. 9. 

 Astroconger myriaster Jordan and Hubbs, 1925, p. 194. — Mori, 1952, p. 64. — 



Matsubara, 1955, p. 337. 

 [?]Leptocephalus kiiensis Ui, 1931 (not seen). 



Specimens studied: 152 specimens from 129 to 606 mm. in total 

 length from the following localities: Japan: Mororan, SNHM 6798 

 (5 specimens); Hakodate USNM 48194, 49898, 71027, 163410 (4); 

 Aomori Ken, Pacific coast UMMZ 165496, 165505; Sendai, Shiogama 

 USNM 71823 (2), UMMZ 165512 (2); coast of Boshyu, Chiba Ken 

 UMMZ 165528; Tokyo Bay UMMZ 165515 (3); Tokyo market, 

 USNM 49977 (3), 38806 (2), 71870, 151844 (2), SNHM 6696 (21); 

 Yokohama market, SNHM 30624 (41), 26779, USNM 151793; 

 Sagami Sea, Shimoda USNM 57596; Misaki, USNM 71868, MCZ 

 29018 (2); Suruga Bay UMMZ 177297, USNM 163411, 163412; 



