MUR^NID.E. 07 



Height of the body, equal to one twenty-second part of its 

 length. Snout, convex towards the tip, concave over the orbits, 

 and twice as long as the eye. Lateral lines having scarcely visible 

 pores. Dorsal commencing immediately above the gills. Anus 

 situated before the middle. Bleeker gives the following account of 

 the colour. Body and fins yellowish-gray, with crowded larger and 

 smaller black spots of round, oblong, and irregular forms ; the spots 

 arranged in longitudinal series. 



Rays : D. 364 ; A. 220 ; = 584 ; C. 10. 



This species, according to Bleeker, is much like isingleena (141), 

 and isimjhenoides (139), but its three rows of palatine teeth place 

 it in a different group. 



Length of the example above described, 8-70 in. 



Ceram {Bleeker). 



Genus 34. CHANNO-MUR^NA, Richardson. 



Olim Ichthyophis et Nettastoma, Richardson. 

 Channo-muraena, Richardson, Ereh. d Terr. 



Nostrils like those of Murmia. Face short and depressed, but 

 the gape of the mouth extremely long and wide, so that the jaws 

 can expand enormously. Body nearly cylindrical, without any ap- 

 peai'ance of the loose dorsal fold, which encloses the fin-rays in 

 Muraua, but behind the anus the tail is somewhat compressed, and 

 towards its tip, becomes thinner. Rays actually exist near the end 

 of the tail, but they can be seen only by dissection. 



All the teeth are slenderly subulate, and are disposed in even, 

 card-like plates. On the palatines, just behind the eyes, they stand 

 about four rows wide, but thin off to three rows towards each ex- 

 tremity of these bones. The nasal and vomerine plates of teeth 

 are not separated, or perhaps the latter do not exist, in which case 

 the nasal dental plate is broadly oval, and composed anteriorly of 

 about six rows in width, but posteriorly the rows diminish to two, 

 which meet in a point a little behind the eye. 



] 72. CHANNO-MUEiENA VITTATA. 



Channo-muraena vittata, Rich., Ereh. S Terr. p. 90, suh Nettastoma. 

 Ichthyophis vittata, Rich., Voy. of Sulph. p. 114, pi. 53, f. 7-9. 



Yellowish, banded by irregular bars of brown. 



Genus 35. MUR^NO-BLENNA, Lacepede, Bleeker. 



Ichthyophis, Lesson. 



Resembling Gymnomurana in being without fins, but differing 

 widely in dentition, the teeth being rather tall, slenderly subulate, 



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