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Anguilla atistralis Jenyns, Zoology Voyage "Beagle", vol. IV. Fish, 1842, p. 142. 

 } Anguilla bicolor McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. V. 1845, P- ^1^- 

 Anguilla macrocephala Rapp, Jahreshefte Ver. Vaterl. Nat. Wtirttemberg, vol. IV. 



1849, p. 142. 

 Anguilla nioa Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. vol. XXIII. 1850, p. 22 (p.p.). 

 Anguilla vircscens Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1852, p. 684. 

 Anguilla sidat Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. vol. XXV. 1853, p. 17. 

 Anguilla mannorala Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fisb, 1856, p. 43 (nee Quoy & Gaimard). 

 Anguilla moiva Kaup, Ibid. p. 51. 

 Anguilla bleekeri Kaup, Ibid. p. 52. 

 Anguilla cantori Kaup, Ibid. p. 52. 

 Anguilla malabarica Kaup, Ibid. p. 52. 

 Anguilla aush-alis Kaup, Ibid. p. 53. 



Anguilla australis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, vol. Xlll. 1857, p. 389. 

 Muraena halmaherensis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. vol. I. 1863, p. 159. 

 Muraena sidat Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. vol. IV. 1864, p. 10. 

 Muraena vioa Bleeker, Ibid. p. 11. 

 Muraena australis Bleeker, Ibid. p. 12. 

 Mtiraena halmaherensis Bleeker, Ibid. p. 12. 



Anguilla sidat Kner, Novara-Reise, Fische, 1865 — 1867, p. 368. 

 Anguilla moa Kner, Ibid. p. 369. 



Anguilla virescens Peters, Reise nach Mossambique, Flussfische, 1868, p. loi. 

 Anguilla bicolor Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. vol. VIII, 1870, p. 35. 

 Anguilla virescens Giinther, Ibid. p. 35. 

 Anguilla sidat Giinther, Ibid. p. 36. 

 Anguilla australis Giinther, Ibid. p. 36. 

 Anguilla bicolor Day, Fishes of India, 1878 — 1888, p. 660. 

 Anguilla australis Douglas Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1886, p. 58. 

 Anguilla bicolor^ Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2), vol. IX. 1890, p. 358. 

 Anguilla virescens Pfeffer, Ostafrikan. P'ische', gesamm. von Stuhlmann, Jahrb. 



Hamb. Anst. vol. X. 1893, p. 41. 

 Anguilla virescens Pfeffer, Die Fische Ost-Afrikas, 1896, p. 71. 

 Anguilla sidat Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXV. 1906, p. 192. 

 Anguilla australis Jordan & Seale, Ibid. p. 192. 

 Anguilla australis Max Weber, Abh. Senckenberg. Nat. Ges. vol. XXXIV. 191 1, 



p. 21. — Zoolog. Jahrb. Suppl. XV. Bd. i, 1912, p. 594. 

 Anguilla australis Boulenger, Cat, Fresh-w^ater fishes Africa. III. 191 5, p. 9. 



According to length, height 16 — 17, head j.-i^ — 8.5. Eye 

 8 — 10, 1.5 — 2.8 in interorbital space and 1.2 — 2.1 in snout, 

 which goes 6 — 8 times in length of head. Gape of mouth 3.5 — 4 

 times in length of head, reaching to hindborder of eye or 

 somewhat farther. Head 2 — 2-/3 in its distance from anus (or 

 from dorsal). Pectorals 2-/3 — 3^2 in length of head. Snout shorter 

 than broad at its base. Tail longer than head and body. The 

 intermaxillary and maxillary teeth form a continuous band of 

 many rows of small, nearly equal teeth, tapering posteriorly. The 

 maxillary teeth are without limit but in close connection with 



