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its cleft extending beyond eye. Eye small. Anterior nostrils 

 in tubes on the flattened lower surface of the snout ; posterior 

 nostrils rather wide, in the upper lip, looking downward, ante- 

 riorly with a flap. Tongue not free. Teeth pointed, of moderate 

 size, about ten in one series on each side of the maxillaries 

 and mandibles; none on vomer; four on intermaxillary 

 plate, far distant from the maxillary series, situated in the 



Fig. 137. Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Benn.). 



furrow between the nostrils. No scales, lateral line present. 

 Gillopenings lateral, small, vertical slits, separated by a broad 

 interspace. 



Distribution: From Indo-australian Archipelago to Japan 

 and in the Pacific the to Sandwich Islands. 



i. Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Benn.). 



Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, Fishes in Beechey's Voyage 1839, p. 66. 

 Ophisurust (Sphagebranchust) vimineus Richardson, Fishes Voy. Sulphur 



18431845, p. 107. 



Stethopterus vimineus Bleeker Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoiden p. 24. 

 Leiuranus Lacepedii Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Genootsch. XXV. 1852, Muraenoiden, p. 36. 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Kaup, Cat. Apod. fish. 1856, p. 2 (Syn. p.p.). 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1864 1865, p. 126. 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 42. 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 1867, p. 378. 

 Liuranus semicinctus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 54. 

 tOphichthys cobra de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1884, p. 455. 



