90 XJ. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Order T. COLOCEPHALI 



Family 80. MUR-fflNIDiE. Morays 



Genus 235. ENCHELYCORE Kaup. 



Enchelycore Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 72 (Mursena nigricans Bonna- 

 terre) . 



611. Enchelycore nigricans (Bonnaterre). 



West Indies; rather common. 



Mursena unicolor maxillis elongatus teretiusculus, inferiore longiore, etc., 



Gronow, Zoophy., 1, 1763, 163, South America. 

 Murxna nigricans Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. Ichth., 1788, 34; after 



Gronow. 

 Mursena anguina Gronow, Cat. Fish., 1854, 18, South America. 

 Enchelycore euryrhina Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 73, no locality. 



612. Enchelycore nigrocastaneus (Cope). 



West Indies. 



Gyinnothorax nigrocastaneus Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1871, 



483, St. Martin. 

 tGymnolhorax imihrosus Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat, Hist, N. Y,, XI, 1874, 67, 



HaV)ana, Cuba. 



Genus 236. MURiENA linnjeus. Morays. 



Murxna Artedi, Gen. Pise, 1738, 23, in part; includes all eels. 



Mursena Klein, Hist. Pise, 1742, 28, in part; includes all eels without 

 pectoral fins. 



Af wricna Linnjeus,Syst, Nat., ed. X, 1758, 244 {hclena, etc.); includes all 

 eels. 



Mursena Thunberg and Ahl, De Mursena «t Ophichthus, 1789, 6 (re- 

 stricted to helena, etc.), includes species without pectoral fins. 



Mursena Giinther and of authors generally; not of Bleeker. 



Mursenophia Laccp^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 630 {helena, etc.). 



Limamursena Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 95 (L. guttata Kaup). 



613. Muraena melanotis (Kaup). 



Tropical Atlanta, from Africa to South America. 



Limamursena melanotis Kaup, Aalen. Fische Hamburg Mus., 1859, 27, 

 pi. 4, fig. 3. 



614. Muraena lentiginosa Jenyns. Morena pinta. 



Pacific coast of America, from Gulf of California to Galapagos. 

 Mursena lentiginosa Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Zool., 1842, 143, Galapagos 



Islands. 

 Mursena pinta Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 



345, Mazatlan. 



615. Muraena retifera Goode and Bean. 



Coast of South Carolina, in rather deep water; one taken at Tucker- 



nuck Island, Mass. 

 Mursena retifera Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 435, 



off Charleston. 



616. Muraena argus (Steindac>'ner). 



Gulf of California. 



Gytnnothorux {Limamursena) argus Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, X, 

 1870, 17, PI. IV, Altata, Gulf of California. 



617. Muraena insularum Jordan and Davis. 



Galapagos Islands. 



Muriena insularum Jordan and Davis, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XVI, 

 1888, 609, Chatham Island. 



618. Muraena myrialeucosticta Fowler. 



West Indies. 



Mursena myrialeucosticta Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXIV, 

 1912, 18, St. Martin. 



619. Muraena clepsydra Gilbert, 



Panama. 



Mursena clepsydra Gilbert, in Jordan and Evcrmann, Fish. North 

 and Mid. Amor., 1898, 2805, Panama. 



Genus 237. PYTHONICHTHYS Poey. 



Pythonichthys Poey, Repertorio, II, 1867, 265 (P, sanguineus Poey). 



