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/3. Tail longer than or nearly equal 



to head and trunk. Lines on body 



and tail rather coarse. Head 2 — 2.6 



in trunk M. (G.) nitdulata wav. ii/iihtla/a ]^. 376. 



y. Tail a little longer or shorter than 



head and trunk. Lines on body and 



tail rather coarse. Head 3 in trunk. M. {G.') favagi/ica va.r. fava^i/wa p. 378. 

 8. Head, trunk and tail uniform brown. 



a. Dorsal high, above anus about equal 



to height of body. Height 20—26 . M. (G.) hcpatica p. 385. 



b. Dorsal moderately developed, lower 



than height above anus. Height 12 — 20 M. (G.) bosclii p. 386. 

 Doubtful species M. (G.) Diicropo'ccilits p. 387. 



I. Muraena (Gymnothorax) picta Ahl 



[Fig. 175, 180, p. 356, 360]. 



Muraena picta Ahl, De Muraena & Ophichtho, Dissert. Upsala 1789, p. 6. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Bloch, Schneider, System. Ichth. 1801, p. 529. 

 Muraenophis pantherina Lacepede, Hist. nat. poissons, V. 1803, p. 628, 641, 643. 

 Muraena variegata Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage Uranie, Zool. 1824, p. 246. 

 Muraena Uta Richardson, Voy. Erebus & Terror, Fish. 1844, p. 84. 

 Muraetia siderea Richardson, 1. c. p. 85. 

 Muraena Uta Bleaker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie HI. 1852, p. 294. — Verb. 



Batav. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoid. p. 47. 

 Muraena pfeifferi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie V. 1853, p. 173. — Verh. 



Batav. Gen. XXV. Aanhangsel 1853, Muraenoiden p. 73. 

 Siiiera pfeifferi Kaup,-Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 70. 

 Sidera pantherina Kaup, I.e. p. 71. 

 Muraena polyophthalmus Bleeker, Acta Soc. Sc. indo-neerl. III. loe Bijdr. Celebes, 



1858, p. 15. 

 Gyiimothorax paniheriniis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 152. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 87. 

 Gymnothorax polyophthalmus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 96. 

 Muraena picta Giinther, Fish. Zanzibar, 1866, p. 126. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Kner, Fische Novara 1865 — 1867, p. 384. 

 Muraena polyophthalmus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 109. 

 Muraena picta Giinther, Ibid. p. 116. 

 Muraena picta Day, Fish. India 4° 1878— 1888, p. 672. 



Muraena picta Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. nat. Ges. XXV. 1901, p. 457. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 103. 



Gymnothorax pictus^ litus^ polyophthalmus Jordan & Scale, I.e. XXV. (1905) 



1906, p. 198, 199. 



Muraena picta Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 19 10, p. 419. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 



Coll. XXVI. 191 1, p. 246. 

 Gymnothorax pictus M. Weber, Siboga-Expeditic, Fische 1913, p. 59. 

 Gymnothorax polyophthalmus M. Weber, Ibid. p. 59. 



