244 



II. Origin of dorsal above or a little before anus. Bands 

 of teeth without an edentulous groove. 



A. Mouthopening reaches hindborder of pupil or not 



so far; eye 6 7 times in length of head . . . . A. spengeli p. 249. 



B. Mouthopening reaches to hindborder of eye or 



farther; eye 8 12 times in length of head. . . A. australis p. 249. 



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Fig. 101. Dentition of Anguiila celebesensis Kaup. 

 a vomerine and maxillary teeth, b mandibulary teeth. X 2 -5- 



i. Anguiila elphinstonei Sykes. 



? Muraena maculata Hamilton Buchanan, in: Fishes Ganges, 1822, p. 23 (nee 



Lacepede). 

 1 Muraena bengalensis Gray, Hardwick lllustr. Ind. Zoology, 1830 1832, PI. 95, 



% 5- 



Anguiila elphinstonei Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. II. 1841, p. 377. 

 Anguiila brevirostris McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. V. 1845, p. 177. 

 Anguiila aracana McClelland, Ibid. p. 178. 

 Anguiila nebulosa McClelland, Ibid. p. 178. 

 Anguiila variegata McClelland, Ibid. p. 179. 

 Anguiila nebulosa Bleeker, Nalez. Ichth. Fauna v. Bengalen, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 



XXV. 1853, p. 153. 



Muraena maculata Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 244 (p.p.)- 

 Anguiila bengalensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. vol. VIII. 1870, p. 27. 

 Anguiila bengalensis Day, Fishes of India, 1878 1888, p. 659 (p.p.). Fauna 



of British India, Fishes, vol. I. 1889, p. 86. 



Anguiila elphinstonei Max Weber, Zoolog. Jahrb. Suppl. XV. Bd. I, 1912, p. 578. 

 Anguiila bengalensis Boulenger, Cat. Fresh-water fishes Africa. III. 1915, p. 7 (p.p.). 



According to length, height 17 20, head 7 8 3 / 5 . Eye 1 1 12, 

 i 3 / 4 2 in interorbital space and a little more than twice in 

 snout, which goes 5 times in head. Gape of mouth 3 ! / 5 3 2 / 3 



