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 5- Moringua macrocephala (Blkr.) 



Aphthalmichthys iiiacroccphalus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 165. — ■ 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 17. 

 Moringua macrocephala Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 92. 

 Moringua viacrocephala Day, Fish. India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 166. 

 } Moringua abbreviata Volz, Zool. Jahrb. System. XIX. 1903, p. 410'). 

 Moringua macrocephala Jordan & Scale, U.S. Bull. Bureau fisheries XXV. (1905) 



1906, p. 195. 

 Moringua (AphthalmicJithys) iiiacrocephala Steindacliner, Sitzb. Akad. Wien CXV. 



1906, p. 1422. 

 Moringua macrocephala Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee Heft IX. 1910, p. 407. 

 Aphthabiiichthys niacrocephalus M. Weber, Fische Siboga-Exped. 1913, p. 52. 



Height 34 — 40; head 8.7 — 9.9; 5.1 — 5.8 in trunk. Tail 1.7 — 2.3 

 in length of head and trunk. Eye very small, in a specimen 

 of 378 mm. about 20 times in head. Cleft of mouth more or 

 less than 6 times in head, reaching behind eye. Lower jaw- 

 prominent. The distance of the origin of the anal from anus 

 about 2 to nearly 4 times in length of head. The origin of 

 the dorsal opposite to or at some distance behind origin of 

 anal. Dorsal and anal forming a very low ridge, somewhat 

 increasing in height at their end, where they are united with 

 the caudal, to form a .short truncate fin. Pectorals rudimentary; 

 they may be better developed in large specimens f. i. in a 

 specimen of 378 mm. their length goes 15 times, in a specimen 

 of 481 mm. 10 times in that of the head. Teeth conical, pointed, 

 recurved, uniserial, the most anterior much stouter. Brown 

 above, yellowish below. Length 700 mm. 



Nom. in dig.: Siwali (Simalur). 



Habitat: Simalur!; Sumatra (river Banju asin in brackish 

 water); Java (Dirk de Vries Bay!); Nusa laut!; Timor; New 

 Guinea. — Philippines, Kanathea, Vitu, Samoa, British India. 



Lives on or near shore, buried in mud. 



6. Moringua abbreviata (Blkr.). 



Aphlliahnichthys abbrevialus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 163. — 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 17. 

 Moringua abbreviata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 92. 

 Moringua abbreviata Peters, Sitzb. Akad. Berlin 1877, p. S50. 

 Aphthalmichthys abbrevialus Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 



1901, p. 877. 

 Moringua abbreviata Volz, Revue suisse Zoologie XII. 1904, p. 482. 



1) We are not sure about the identity of this fish, as the description contains 

 an evident error abcjut the length of the tail. 



