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2. Subgenus Chlevastes Jordan & Snyder. 



(Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 867). 

 Dorsal ending one heads length before tip of tail. Anal 



oo 0° 



Fig. 130. Myrichthys (Chlevastes) colubr'mus (Bodd.). X ^/.t- 

 -j — Y end of anal and dorsal. 



ending two heads length or more before tip of tail. Teeth 

 obtusely conical or granular, in 2 o^ ^ 

 series; those of the intermaxillary 0*^0 °o<'o S° 

 plate in a group of about 8 teeth, li °f° 

 separated from the others by an §1 ^^ 

 interspace and situated in a furrow °° ^^ ^ °° f>° °| Xj^ 

 between the nostrils. '^ o^u '^'^^ 

 Distribution: From Red Sea, ^.g^.^^ Dentition of ^/.-..v/.^/.j. 

 the East coast of Africa, Mauritius f«/,//;;-/;mj(Bodd.).rt teeth on inter- 

 through the Indo-aUStralian Archi- maxillary plate, m maxillary, md 

 pelagO to Japan and the West pacific mandibulary, v vomerine teeth 



Islands. ^"^ ^'/•^• 



2. Myrichthys (Chlevastes) colubrinus (Bodd.). 



Muracnd colulrina Boddaert in Pallas, Neue Nord. Beitrage II. 17S1, p. 56. 

 Mio-aena anmdata Ahl, De Muraena et Ophichtho 1789, p. 6. 

 Mtiracna fascia (a Ibid. p. 7. 



