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639. Gymnothorax elaboratus (Poey). 



Cuba. 



Muraena elaborata Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 323, Cuba. 



640. Gymnothorax obscuratus Poev. 



Cuba. 



Gymnothorax obscuratus Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., IX, 1870, 

 320, Cuba. 



641. Gymnothorax chlevastes (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Galapagos Islands. 



Sidera chlerastes Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1883, 

 208, Galapagos. 



642. Gymnothorax albimentis (Evermann and ^Marsh). 



Porto Rico. 



Lycodontis albimentis Evermann and Marsh, Fish. Porto Rico, Bull. U. 

 S. Fish Com., XX, 1900 (1902), pt. 1, 78, fig. 9; off Culebra Island. 



643. Gymnothorax concolor (Abbott). 



West Indies. 



Thyrsoidea concolor Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XII, 1860, 



479, Vera Cruz. 

 fMurxna erebus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 426, Cuba. 



644. Gymnothorax aquaedulcis (Cope). 



Rio Grande, Costa Rica. 



Muraena aquse-dulcis Cope, Rept., U. S. Geol. Surv., 1871 (1872), 474; 

 said to be from Rio Grande, Costa Rica. It is evidently not a fresh- 

 water fish. According to Fowler, it is not a liabula, the dorsal 

 beginning well before the gill opening. 



645. Gymnothorax carcinognathus Fowler. 



West Iiifiies. 



Gymnothorax carcinognathus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Piiila., LXIV, 

 1912, 22, St. Martins, West Indies. 



646. Gymnothorax verilli (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Panama; (jne specimen known. 



Sidera verrilli Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 623, 

 Panama. 



647. Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz. Spotted moray; Moray eel. 



PcMsacola to Rio .Janeiro. 



Gymnothorax ocellatus Aga.ssiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 1828, 91, pi. 50b, 

 Brazil. 



648. Gymnothorax ocellatus saxicola Jordan and Davis. 



Snapper Banks off IVnsacohi and deep water ofT Cuba. 



Murana meleagris Quov and Gaimard, Voy. Freycinet, Zool., 1824 



245, pi. 52, fig. 2; not of Shaw. 

 Gymnothorax ocellatus saxicola Jordan and Davis, Rept. U. S Fish 



Com., XVI, 1888, 606, Snapper Banks off Pensacola. 



649. Gymnothorax ocellatus nigromarginatus (Girard). 



Coast of west Florida and Texas. 



A\eomur:i tia nigromarginata Girard, U. S. Me.\. Bound, Surv., 1859 

 76, pi. 41, St. Joseph Island, Tex. 



Genus 240. SIDEREA Kaup. 



Sidtrca Kaup, Icbcrsicht der Aale, 1856, 59 (Murs^na pfeifferi Bleeker = 

 Munrna picta Ahlj ; name later written Sidera. 



650. Siderea picta (Ahl). 



South Seas; East Indies; Hawaii; Revillagigedos; taken at Clarion 



Island. 

 Murana picta Ahl, De Mura-na et Ophichtho, VI, 1787, 6, tab. 2. 

 Muranophis panlherina Lacopode, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 628. 

 Mura-na variegata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 1824, 246, pi. 52. 

 Murana lita Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844, 84, Moluccas. 

 Murana siderea Richardson, loc. cit. 85, pi. 48, Australia. 

 Murana pfeifferi Blceker, Nat. Tijcks. Ned. Ind., V, 173, Celebes, 



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