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Gyinnoinuraetia doliaia Lacepede, Ilisl. nat. Puissons V. 1803, p. 64S, 649. 



Muraena molendbniiis Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I. 1833, p. 32. 



Gymnomuracna zchra Richardson, Voy. Eiel)us & Terror, Fishes 1844, p. 95. 



Gymnoimiraena fasciata Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 103. 



Gyinnoimiraena zchra Kaup. 1. c. p. 104. 



Mtiraena zebra Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 80. 



Echidna zebra Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 81. 



Muraena zebra Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 128. 



Muraena zebra Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Gcs. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 620. 



Muraena zebra Day, Fish. India 4". 1878 — 1888, p. 673. 



Echidna zebra Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. fish. Comm. XXIII (1903) 



1905, p. 106. 

 Muraena zebra Giinther, Fische d. Siidsec, Ilcft IX. 1910, p. 422. 



Height 17 — 21; head 8.6 — 9.75, 4.8 to about 5.5 in trunk. 

 Tail nearly twice to more than twice in head and trunk. Eye 

 10 — 12.5, 1.6 to twice in snout. Snout more or less than 7 in 

 head. Cleft of mouth 2.7 to 3.5 in length of head, reaching 

 far behind eye. Dorsal beginning behind gillopenings, its height 

 about 4 times in height of body; not very distinct under the 

 thick skin. Teeth granular, the maxillary ones the smallest, 

 in two short series. Mandibulary teeth in 3 to 4 irregular series, 

 the inner series the largest. On the vomer a pear-shaped group 

 of large teeth, broadly connected with the roundish group of 

 similar teeth on the intermaxillary plate; the central teeth in 

 both groups the largest. Alcohol specimens blackish brown, 

 encircled by 30 to more than 100 white, black-edged narrow 

 rings. Some of the rings may be incomplete, they are less 

 regular the more numerous they are. Length 1250 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra; Banda!; Buru; Ambon; Waigeu; Flores!; 

 Timor. — From the Red Sea, East coast of Africa, Mada- 

 gascar, Mauritius, to the Pacific Islands (Samao) and Philippines. 



On reefs and near shore. 



2. Echidna polyzona (Rich.). 



} Muraena helena Linne, Syst. nat. edit. X", 1758, p. 244 (according to FiJnnbcrg, 



Bihang Svenska Akad, XXII. N". i, 1896, p. 24). 

 Muraena polyzona Richardson, Voyage Sulphur, Fishes, 1844, p. 112. — Voyage 



Erebus & Terror, Fishes, 1844, p. 95. 

 Muraena polyzona Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-necrl. I. 1856, Vissch. van Menado 



P- 73- 

 Poecilophis polysonus Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. loi. 

 Muraena dizona Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XXII. i860, p. 260. 

 Echidna polyzona Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV, 1864, p. 81. 

 Poecilophis polyzona Kner, Fische d. Novara 1865 — 1S67, p. 382. 

 Muraena polyzona Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 129. 



