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II. Origin of dorsal above or a little before anus. Bands 

 of teeth without an edentulous groove. 

 j4. Mouthopening reaches hindborder of pupil or not 



so far; eye 6 — 7 times in length of head . . . . A. spcngeli p. 249. 

 B. Mouthopening reaches to hindborder of eye or 



farther; eye 8 — 12 times in length of head. . . A. ausiralis p. 249. 



h a 











■i lilt 





Fig. loi. Dentition of A/!giii//a celehcsensis Kaup. 

 (7 vomerine and maxillary teeth, /' mandibulary teeth. X 2.5- 



I. Anguilla elphinstonei Sykes. 



} Muraena macidata Hamilton Buchanan, in: Fishes Ganges, 1822, p. 23 (nee 



Lacepede). 

 > Muraena bengalensis Gray, Hardwick lUustr. Ind. Zoology, 1830 — 1832, PI. 95, 



% 5- 

 Anguilla elphinstonei Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. II. 1841, p. 377. 

 Anguilla brevirostris McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. V. 1845, p. 177. 

 Anguilla aracana McClelland, Ibid. p. 178. 

 Ajtguilla nehulosa McClelland, Ibid. p. 1 78. 

 Anguilla variegata McClelland, Ibid. p. 179. 

 Anguilla nebulosa Bleaker, Nalez. Ichth. Fauna v. Bengalen, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 



XXV. 1853, p. 153. 

 Muraena maculata Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 244 (p.p.). 

 Anguilla bengalensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. vol. VIII. 1870, p. 27. 

 Anguilla bengalensis Day, Fishes of India, 1878 — 1888, p. 659 (p.p.). — Fauna 



of British India, Fishes, vol. I. 1889, p. 86. • 

 Anguilla elphinstonei Max Weber, Zoolog. Jahrb. Suppl. XV. Bd. i, 1912, p. 578. 

 Anguilla bengalensis Boulenger, Cat. Fresh-water fishes Africa. III. 1915, p. 7 (p.p.)- 



According to length, height 17 — 20, head 7 — 8^/5. Eye 11 — 12, 

 1^/4 — 2 in interorbital space and a Httle more than twice in 

 .snout, which goes 5 times in head. Gape of mouth 3'/5 — 3-/3 



