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Gymnolhorax ii/n/ii/atus Jordan & Evcrmann, 15ull. U. S. Fisli. Comm. XXIII. 



(1903) 1905, p. 98. 

 } Euiyiiiyctera acutirostyis Jordan & Evermann, Ibid. p. 105. 

 Gymnothorax uiidtdatiis Scale, Occasional papers Bernice Taualu Bishop Mus. 



IV. 1906, p. 9. 

 Mnraeita undulala Giinther, Fisclie d. Siidscc, Heft IX. 1910. p. 413. 

 Gymnotliorax sicila/us Fowler, Troc. Acad. Nat. Sc. riiiladelphia l.XIV. 1912, p. 21. 

 Gymnolhorax uiidulattis Fowler, Ibid. p. 21. 



Gyiiinolliorax stcllatiis Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XLII. 1912, p. 492. 

 Gymnothorax favaginciis Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 56 [nee 



Bloch, Schneider]. 

 Gymnothorax macassariensis Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 19 13, p. 61 [nee Blkr.]. 

 Gymnothorax sagenodeta Max Weber, Ibid. p. 61 [nee Richardson]. 



Height 14 — 22; head (i'^\.y — 8, 2 — 2.6 in trunk. Tail half length 

 of head longer than or nearly equal to head and trunk. Eye 

 8,5 to more than 10, situated about in the middle of the cleft 

 of the mouth, which goes 2 — 2 '/a times in head. Even in adult 

 specimens the mouth can nearly be closed completely. Snout 

 rather long, compressed, i^o — 1^4 diameter of eye. Anterior 

 nasal tubes much shorter than diameter of eye. Dorsal and 



Fig. 186. Muraena (Gymnotliorax) undulata (Lac.) var. fimbriata. 

 g gillopening. nat. size. 



anal well developed, the former beginning before gillopenings. 

 In the maxillaries a row of 12 — 20 compressed teeth, the ante- 

 rior ones the largest. In young specimens anteriorly an inner 

 row of 3 — I large, depressible teeth. Intermaxillary plate with 

 a peripheral series of 10 — 16 teeth, which are larger than 

 those of the maxillaries and with a median series of 3 fang- 

 like teeth. Vomer with 10 or less small teeth in an irregular 

 series. Mandibulary teeth 18 — 30, compressed, pointed, the 

 anterior ones longer and more irregularly placed, the posterior 

 ones in a single row. In the variety fimbriata the colour is 

 reddish brown, with several irregular longitudinal rows of black 

 round or irregularly oval spots, which are generally not much 



