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Teeth obtusely conical or granular in 2 series in the jaws, on 

 the vomer and intermaxillary plate ; on the lastnamed (at least 

 in M. macnlosus) in a group of 6 teeth. 

 Distribution: Tropical seas. 



I. Myrichthys (Myrichthys) maculosus (Cuv.) Richards. 

 [Fig. 129, p. 283]. 



Ophisiirus ophis Lacepede II. 1800, plate 6, Fig. 2 (nee Muraena ophis Bloch) '). 

 Muraena maculosa Cuvier, Regne animal 11. 181 7, p. 232, note 3. 

 Murae?ia tigrina Riippell, Atl. Reise Afiika, Fische 1826, p. 118 (fide Klunzinger) •). 

 Op/iisurus maailosus Richardson, Zoology Voy. Erebus & Terror 1844, p. 102. 

 Ophistirus maculosus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II. 1851, p. 258. — 



Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 29. 

 Fisoodonophis maculosus Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish 1856, p. 21. 

 Pisoodofiophis magttifica Abbott, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philad. i860, p. 476. 

 Ophisurus ophis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 65. 

 Ophichthys maculosus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 81. 

 Ophichthys maculosus Klunzinger, Abh. zoolog. botan. Gesellsch. XXI. 1871, p. 61 1. 

 Ophichthys stypurus Smith & Swain, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1882, p. 120. 

 Myrichthys magnificus Fowler, Proc. Acad. N.S. Philad. 1900, p. 494. — Jordan 



& Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Coram. XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 84. 

 Myrichthys stypurus Jordan & Evermann, Ibid. p. 84. 

 Ophichthys maculosus Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 401. 

 Myrichthys magnificus Fowler, Proc. Acad. N.S. Philadelphia 191 2, p. 16. 



Height 38 — 47 (according to KLUNZINGER 58 — 60); head 

 14.5 — 17, 5 — 6 times in trunk; head and trunk three fourths 

 or two thirds of the length of the tail. Eye 8 — 9, i '/a — 2'/, 

 times in snout. Snout short, broad, very convex. Cleft of mouth 

 extending to the vertical from the hindmargin of the orbit, 

 3 to 4 times in head. Origin of dorsal on the nape, dorsal and 

 anal of moderate height, ending at a short distance from end 

 of tail. Pectorals very short, 672 — 10 times in head. Teeth in 

 jaws and vomer obtusely conical, in two series; 6 on the inter- 

 maxillary plate. White or yellowish white, with 3 series of 

 alternating round, brown spots, the middle series the largest, the 

 upper and lower series partly extending on the fins. Length 

 1000 mm. [A specimen of Bleeker's collection in the Leiden 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Patjitan); Buru; Ceram ; Banda; German 

 New Guinea!. — From Red Sea and Madagascar to Sandwich 

 Islands. 



In sea on reefs. 



l) Cfr. Klunzinger, Abhandl. Zoolog. botan. Gesellsch. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 61 1. 



