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Flabitat: Java; Cocos Island. — Japan, Mauritius, Savaii, 

 Tahiti and Sandwich Islands. 

 On reefs and near shore. 



2. Subgenus Strophidon McClelland. 



(Mc Ci.ELLAND, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 1844, p. 187). 



Posterior nostrils without tube. Height 40 — 5 i. Teeth without 

 serrature. 



Fig- 179- Miiraena (Strophidon) hrununcri Blkr. X "/s- 



I. Muraena (Strophidon) brummeri Blkr. 



Muraena Brummeri Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XVII. 1858 — 59, p. 137. 

 Strophidon polyodon Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Cierk. II. 1864 — 65, p. 47. 

 Psaidcchidna Brummeri Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 272. — 



Atl. Ichlh. IV. 1864, PI. XVIII. fig. I. 

 Strophidon Brummeri Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 109. 

 Strophidon polyodon Bleeker, Ibid. p. 109. 



Mtiraena brummeri Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 128. 

 Muraena polyodon Giinther, Ibid. p. T28. 

 Muraena taenioidcs Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 871, p. 674. 



Strophidon Brummeri Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1 901, p. 855. 

 Muraena brummeri Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, IX. 1910, p. 420. 

 Gymnothorax megaptcrtis Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische, 191 3, p. 57. 



Exceedingly elongate, height 40 — 51 ; head 12 — 17, 4.6 — 7 

 in trunk. Head and trunk nearly equal to tail or nearly one third 

 shorter. Eye about 17 — 20, nearly in the middle of the cleft 

 of the mouth, which shuts completely and goes 4 or less in length 

 of head. Snout acutely rounded; more than twice as long as 

 eye and 7 times in length of head. Dorsal commencing about 

 at the end of the second third of the head, its height ante- 

 riorly more or less than half the height of the body; above the 

 anus higher than or about as high as the height of the body 

 underneath, farther behind it may even increase compared 



