00 catalogue of fish. 



170. Ltmamur.ena guttata. 



Muraena guttata, Banks and Sol. MSS., Icon. Park. 11,1, Bib. Ba)iks ; 



Low, Fishes of Madeira, Tr. Zool. Soc. 11, p. 19"2 ; Richardson, 



Erch. S Terr. p. 90. 

 Murrena pavouina, Rich., Voij. of Sidph., 110, pi. 53, f. 2; Ereh. 



d- Terr. p. 90. 

 Muraiua pardalis, Temm. etSchh, F. Jap. 268, t. 119. 

 Calamaia paum, Russell. 



Dia(jn. Colour, pitch-black, varied by regular oval spots, shaded 

 off with browu, and smaller on the head and fins than on the 

 body. 



Ten or 12 moderately-tall, slightly-recurved, acute, uniserial, 

 nasal teeth, with a minute tooth in each interval. Three teeth on 

 the mesial line, the posterior 2 being, as usual, the tallest in the 

 mouth. The vomerine series, commencing at a considerable dis- 

 tance behind these, is composed of 5 or acute teeth. Palatine 

 teeth biserial ; 1 or 17 in the outer row, compressed, subulate, and 

 acute, with 6 tall, slender, and acute ones, more widely set in the 

 interior row, which reaches about half-way along the outer series. 

 Each limb of the mandible is armed by about 19 subulate, slightly- 

 recurved teeth, forming the exterior row, with a second row at the 

 fore end of the limb, composed of 4 tall, slender, acute teeth. 



Body high and much compressed, with a broad dorsal, which 

 commences at a considerable distance befoi'e the gill-opening, and 

 becomes comparatively very narrow as it rounds the end of the tail 

 to join the anal. The gill-opening is one-seventh of the whole 

 length distant from the end of the snout, and the vent is one- 

 twentieth of the length before the middle of the fish. 



Length, 90 in. To anus, 4-4 in. To gill-opening, 14 in. 

 (Richardson.) 



Madeira, Brazils. 



There can be no doubt of this being the species described by 

 Solander as quoted above. He says, " ientacula quatuor lanceolata, 

 compressa hrevia, duo in apice rostri, duo supra angulos anticos 

 ocnioruni." The name he gave it is the oldest, and must be 

 adopted. Risso, at a much later date, bestowed the same appella- 

 tion on a variety of Murtrna helena. 



Genus 33. POLYURANODON, Kaup. 



Thyrsodcina having three rows of pointed teeth on the palatine 

 bones. Nasals, 14 uniserial. Vomerines, 5-0 uniserial. Mandi- 

 bulars anteriorly quadriserial, posteriorly biserial. 



171. PoLYURANODON KuHI,II. 



Murrena polyuranodon, Bleeker. 



