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Nom. indig. : Mowa (Malay. Batavia); Lubang (Sundan.); 

 Ikan denong (Laut Tawar). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Laut Tawar! [Atjeh]; Lake of Manindjau!, 

 Padang); Simalur!; Nias!; Java (Batavia, Buitenzorg, Tjibulus, 

 Perdana, Tjibiliong, Kowawang, Tjitjurup, Tjitarik, Kuningan, 

 Djember!); Borneo; Bali; Lombok; Sumbawa; Flores!; Timor 

 up to 700 and 900 M. ! ; Wetter; Babber!; Celebes (Makassar, 

 lake of Tempe!, Dongala!, Lake of Posso!, Menado, Tondano, 

 Klabat di Atas) ; Saleyer!; Togian Islands; Buru!; Ambon!; 

 Ceram!; Nusa Laut!; Batjan; Ternate; Halmahera; Rawak; 

 New Guinea (rivers Mamapiri!, Klipong!, Tawarin!, near Hum- 

 boldt Bay!, German New Guinea). — Westpacific Islands; River 

 Mary in South Australia; Honkong; Philippines; Formosa; 

 Andaman Islands; Ceylon; Mauritius; Johanna Island; Natal; 

 Mossambique; Zanzibar; German East-Africa ^). 



3. Anguilla celebesensis Kp. [Fig. 99, loi on p. 243, 244]. 



} Anguilla aucklandi Richardson, Voy. Erebus & Terror, vol. II. 1844, p. 112. 



Anguilla celebesensis Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish, 1856, p. 42. 



Anguilla megasioma Kaup, Ibid. p. 50. 



Anguilla otaheitensis Kaup, Neue Aalahnl. Fische, Hamburg 1859, p. 17. 



Muraena celebesensis Bleeker, Atl, Ichth. vol, IV. 1864, p. 115. 



Anguilla amboinensis Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1866, p. 523. 



Anguilla aneitensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. vol. VIII. 1870, p. 34. 



Anguilla obscura Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. 673. 



Anguilla amboinensis Klunzinger, Sitzber. math.-naturw. CI. Akad. Wien, vol. XXX. 



1879, p. 419. 

 Anguilla amboinensis A. B. Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. nat. vol. XIV. 



1885, p. 43- 

 Anguilla delalandi Sauvage, Poissons de Madagascar, 1 891, p. 493. 

 Anguilla latirostris Popta, Notes Leyden Mus. XXVII. 1905 (1906) p. 210 



(nee Risso). 

 Anguilla megasioma Jordan & Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish, XXV. 1906, p. 192. 

 Anguilla megasioma Seale, Occ. Papers Bishop Museum, vol. IV. 1906, p. 5. 

 Anguilla oiaheiiensis Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, vol. III. 1910, p. 390. 

 Anguilla aneitensis Giinther, Ibid. p. 391. 

 Anguilla obscura Giinther, Ibid. p. 392. 



Anguilla aneiiensis M. Weber, Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. vol. XXXIV. I9ii,p. 22. 

 Anguilla otaheitensis Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 



College vol. XXVI. 1907, p. 244. 

 Anguilla celebesensis Max Weber, Zoolog. Jahrb. Suppl. XV. Bd. i, 191 2, p. 585. 



According to the length, height 14 — 19, head 7.4 — "i.^. Eye 

 6Xi (in young) — 13.5, 1.3 — 2.3 in interorbital space, i.i — 2.5 



l) GuNTHER cites also Almorak in the mountainous part of British India, 

 but as this statement is based on a dried skin, doubt is not excluded. 



