Gymnothorax. 
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Tail slightly longer than head and trunk; head rather short, moderately com- 
pressed ; eye midway between tip of snout and angle of mouth ; anterior nostril tubular, 
half as long as diameter of eye ; posterior nostril without tube and very close to eye. 
Jaws equal, completely closed, with uniserial pointed teeth ; upper jaw with ten teeth 
on each side, of which the anterior ones are much larger ; lower jaw also with about ten 
teeth on each side ; none on vomer. Mouth-cleft extending backward from eye more 
than the diameter of latter ; gill openings slightly shorter than diameter of eye. 
Color in formalin reddish brown, rather profusely adorned with whitish spots ; the 
Same maculation on the under surface. The largest spots are half as large as eye in 
diameter and sometimes larger than the interspaces ; posteriorly the spots are smaller 
and more distant ; inside of mouth similarly spotted ; angle of mouth, gill-opening and 
vent without special coloration. Dorsal fin spotted anteriorly but plain posteriorly ; 
Anal entirely without spots ; both vertical fins narrowly edged with whitish. 
The species is very closely allied to Gymnothorax functatus Bloch and Schneider 
described by Giinther and figured by Day, but differs from it in dentition and markings 
and in having a white edge on the dorsal and anal fins, 
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