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1 7- Muraena (Gymnothorax) richardsoni Blkr. 



} Muracnophis faveola Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Zool. 1830, p. 128. 



Muraena grisea Cuv.? Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXII. Bijdr. Ichth. Bali, (1848) 



1849, p. II. 

 Muraena Richardsonii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III, 1852, p. 296, 

 Muraena ceramensis Bleeket, Ibid. p. 297. 



Muraena scoliodon Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Mmaenoid, p. 43. 

 Muraena Troschelii Bleeker, Ibid. p. 45. 



Mtiraena florisiana Bleeker, Nat. Tijdscbr. Ned. Indie VI. 1854, p. 334. 

 Muracfia verinicularis Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1855, p. 459. 

 Muraena diplodon Peters, Ibid. p. 460. 

 Muraena venosa Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fisb 1856, p. 68. 

 Thyrsoidea ceramensis Kaup, Ibid. p. 87. 

 Tliyrsoidea multifasciata Kaup, Ibid. p. 87. 



Gymnothorax fioresianus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdscbr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 252. 

 Gymnothorax venosus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 272. 

 Gymnothorax Richardsoni Bleeker, Atl. Icbt. IV. 1864, p. 100. 

 Gymnothorax scoliodon Bleeker, Ibid. p. loi. 

 Gymnothorax ceramensis Bleeke^, Ibid. p. loi. 



Gvmnothorax richardsonii Kner, Fiscbe Novara-Exp. 1865 — 1867. p. 385. 

 Muraena richardsoni Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 118. 

 Gymnothorax richardsoni Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bureau Fisb. Washington 



XXVII. (1907) 1908, p. 240. 

 Gymnothorax richardsonii Giintber, Fiscbe der Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 414. 



Height 14 — 20. Head 6.5 — 7.5, 2.2 — 2.7 in trunk. Tail equal 

 to or a little longer than head and trunk. Eye 8 — 10, situated 

 above the middle of 

 the cleft of the mouth, 

 which goes 2.5 -3 

 times in length of 

 head. Snout conical, 

 slightly compressed, 

 about I ','2 times dia- 

 meter of eye. Ante- 

 rior nostrils about half 

 as long as eye. Gill- 

 openings as wide as 

 the eye. Dorsal and 

 beginning somewhat before the gillopenings. Maxillaries with 

 a series of 8—12 strong, but rather short, compressed teeth, 

 in older specimens their number may decrease to 5. In young 

 specimens anteriorly an inner row of 3 — 4 more slender ones. 

 Intermaxillary plate with a peripheral series of 8 to 16 teeth, 

 not much stronger than those on the maxillaries and a mesial 



Fig. 189. Muraena (Gymnothorax) richardsoni 

 Blkr. g gillopening. >< ''A- 



anal moderately developed, the former 



