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Teeth obtusely conical or granular in 2 series in the jaws, on 

 the vomer and intermaxillary plate; on the lastnamed (at least 

 in M. mactdosus] in a group of 6 teeth. 

 Distribution: Tropical seas. 



i. Myrichthys (Myrichthys) maculosus (Cuv.) Richards. 

 [Fig. 129, p. 283]. 



Ophisurus ophis Lacepede II. 1800, plate 6, Fig. 2 (nee Muraena ophis Bloch) '). 

 Muraena maculosa Cuvier, Regne animal II. 1817, p. 232, note 3. 

 Muraena tigrina Ruppell, At). Reise Afrika, Fische 1826, p. 118 (fide Klunzinger) '). 

 Ophisurus maculostis Richardson, Zoology Voy. Erebus & Terror 1844, p. 102. 

 Ophisurus macttlosus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II. 1851, p. 258. 



Verb. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 29. 

 Pisoodonophis maculosus Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish 1856, p. 21. 

 Pisoodonophis magnified Abbott, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philad. 1860, p. 476. 

 Ophisurus ophis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 65. 

 Ophichthys maculosus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 81. 

 Ophichthys maculosus Klunzinger, Abh. zoolog. botan. Gesellsch. XXI. 1871, p. 611. 

 Ophichthys styptims Smith & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, p. 120. 

 Myrichthys magnificus Fowler, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philad. 1900, p. 494. Jordan 



& Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 84. 

 Myrichthys stypurus Jordan & Evermann, Ibid. p. 84. 

 Ophichthys maculosus Gunther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 401. 

 Myrichthys magnificus Fowler, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philadelphia 1912, p. 16. 



Height 38 47 (according to KLUNZINGER 5860); head 

 14.5 17, 5 6 times in trunk; head and trunk three fourths 

 or two thirds of the length of the tail. Eye 8 9, i'/ 2 2 ! / 2 

 times in snout. Snout short, broad, very convex. Cleft of mouth 

 extending to the vertical from the hindmargin of the orbit, 

 3 to 4 times in head. Origin of dorsal on the nape, dorsal and 

 anal of moderate height, ending at a short distance from end 

 of tail. Pectorals very short, 6 ] / 2 10 times in head. Teeth in 

 jaws and vomer obtusely conical, in two series; 6 on the inter- 

 maxillary plate. White or yellowish white, with 3 series of 

 alternating round, brown spots, the middle series the largest, the 

 upper and lower series partly extending on the fins. Length 

 1000 mm. [A specimen of BLEEKER'S collection in the Leiden 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Patjitan); Buru; Ceram ; Banda; German 

 New Guinea!. - - From Red Sea and Madagascar to Sandwich 

 Islands. 



In sea on reefs. 



i) Cfr. Klunzinger, Abhandl. Zoolog. botan. Gesellsch. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 61 1. 



