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 5- Pisoodonophis cancrivorus (Rich.). 



Ophisurus cancrivorus Richardson, Voy. Erebus & Terror, lishcs 1844, p. 97. 

 Ophisurus sinensis Richardson, Ibid. p. 98. 



Ophisurus baccidetis Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal X\'III. 1850, j). 1302. 

 Ophisurus schaapi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 735. — 



Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 53. 

 Ophisurus hrachysoma Bleeker, Ibid. p. 776. — Ibid. p. 55. 

 Pisoodonophis cancrivorus Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish 1856, p. 15. 

 Pisoodonophis br achy soma Kaup, Ibid. p. 19. 

 Pisoodonopliis Schaapi Kaup, Ibid. p. 19. 



Pisoodonophis hrachysoma Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. I\'. 1864, p. 60. 

 Pisoodonophis Schaapi Bleeker, Ibid. p. 6i. 

 Pisoodonophis moluccensis Bleeker, Ibid. p. 72. 



Pisoodonophis cancrivorus Kner, Novara-Exped., Fische 1865—67. p. 379. 

 Ophichthys cancrivorus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 78. 

 } Pisoodonophis zophistitis ]oxdi3.n & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 868. 

 Pisoodonophis cancrivorus Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bureau fisheries Washington 



XXVII. (1907) 1908, p. 238. 

 Pisoodonophis cancrivorus Franz, Abh. Akademie Miinchen Suppl. IV. T910, p. 13. 

 Ophichthys cancrivorus Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 400. 



Height 22 — ii\ head S'/, — lO, 2^\^ to more than 3 times in 

 trunk; head and trunk more or less than i '/i times in tail. 

 Eye more than 9 to 12; nearly i ^\^ to 2 times in snout. Posterior 

 nostrils nearly below frontborder of eye, anterior nostrils in a 

 short tube. Snout convex, somewhat depressed; cleft of mouth 

 reaching to below hindborder of eye or farther; 3 — 4 times 

 in length of head. Dorsal commencing above the middle of 

 the pectorals. Dorsal and anal about half height of body, ending 

 at some distance from point of tail. Pectorals 3 — 4 times in 

 head. Teeth granular, subequal, in rather narrow bands of several 

 series. A group of rather numerous teeth on the intermaxillary 

 plate, more or less separated from the other teeth. Brownish, 

 lighter below, dorsal with a more or less distinct blackish spot 

 anteriorly. Length 760 mm. 



Habitat: Singapore; Banka; Celebes (Makassar!); Solor; 

 Ambon. — Pinang; Philippines; China; Japan; Australia; Samoa; 

 Muscat; Mauritius (?); Madagascar. 



In sea and estuaries. 



7. Ophichthys Ahl. 



(Ahl, De Muraena et Ophichtho 1789, p. 3). 



Much elongate, cylindrical. Anus somewhat before or much 

 behind middle of length. Origin of dorsal above gillopenings 



