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620. Pythonichthys sanguineus Poey. 



Coast of Cuba, in rather deep water. 



Pythonichthys sanguineus Poev, Repertorio, II, 1867, 265, pi. 2, fig. 7, 

 Cuba. 



Genus 238. RABULA Jordan and Davis. 



Rabula Jordan and Davis, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XVI, 1888, 589 

 (R. aquse-dulcis Jordan and Davis = i?a6uZa davisi Fowler, not 

 Mursena aquse-dulcis Cope). 



621. Rabula davisi Fowler. 



Said to be from San Diego, which is doubtful. 



Rabula davisi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXIV, 1912, 21; 

 after Rabula aquse-dulcis Jordan and Davis; not of Cope. 



622. Rabula marmorea (Valenciennes). 



Galapagos Islands. 



Muraenophis marmoreus Valenciennes, Voy. Y4nus, Zool., 1855, 347, pi. 

 10, fig. 1, Galapagos. 



623. Rabula panamensis (Steindachner). 



Pacific coast of Central America. 



Mursena panamensis Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., V, 1876, 19, Panama. 



624. Rabula longicauda (Peters). 



Tropical Atlantic, off the West Indies. 



MuTsena longicauda Peters, Monatsberichte, 1876, 850, open Atlantic, 

 with Sphagebranchus anguiforniis. 



Genus 239. GYMNOTHORAX Bloch. Morays. 



Gymnothorax Bloch. Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, IX, 1795, 83, restricted 

 to allies of M. afra bv Giinther (G. mursena Bloch). 



Lycondontis McClelland, Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist., V, No. XVIII, 

 1844, 173 (L. literala^tile). 



Throndontis McClelland, loc. cit., V, No. XVIII, 1844, 174 {T. reti- 

 culata = less el a la) . 



Eurymyctera Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 72, (E. crudelis Kaup). 



Polyuranodon Kaup, loc. cit., 96 {Mursena polyuranodon Bleeker). 



Txniophis Kaup, Aalen. Fische Hamburg Mus., Nachtrage, 1859, 10 

 {T. westphali Kaup). 



Priodontophis Kaup, loc. cit., 1859, 22 (Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz). 



Neomnrxna Girard, U. S. Mcx. Bound. Surv., Fishes, 1859, 76 (A'^. 

 nigromarginala Girard = ocellatus). 



Pseudomuraena Johnson, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 167 (P. ma- 

 deircnsis Johnson. 



625. Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres). Conger eel of California. 



Point Conception to Cedros Island; abundant about Santa Barbara 



Islands. 

 Murxna mordax Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 1859, 30, 



Ccrros [Cedros] Island. 



626. Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier). Common spotted moray; Hamlet; 



Bel 

 Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola, and West Indies to Rio Janeiro and St. 



Helena. 

 Murxna maculata nigra; the black moray, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Caro- 



linas, etc., 1738, pi. 21, Bahamas. 

 IGymnothorax afer Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1795, pi. 417, Africa. 

 Murxna moringa Cuvier, R6gne Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 352; after 



Catesby. 

 Gymnothorax rostratus Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 1830, 91, pi. 50a, 



Brazil. 

 A/urajno morin^ua Richardson, Voy. ^reb?/.s and Terror, Fishes, 1844, 89, 



Jamaica. 

 Murxna punctata Gronow, Cat. Fish., 1854, 18, North America. 

 MuTxnophis curvilineata Castelnau, Anim. Am6r. Sud, Poiss., 1855, 81, pi. 



42, fig. 2, Rio Janeiro. 

 MuTxnophis caramuru Castelnau, loc. cit., 85, pi. 43, Bahia. 

 Gymnothorax flavoscriptus Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 1.58, Cuba. 

 Gymnothorax picluratus Poey, Anal. Soc. Espanola Hist. Nat., 1880, 



267, Cuba. 



