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equal, slightly curved; uniserial in the jaws, those of the vomer 

 anteriorly biserial; on the intermaxillary plate 4 or 5 sub- 

 biserial teeth, far remote from the others. Brownish above, lighter 

 below. Length of the single specimen known 600 mm. [After 

 BLEEKER, not seen by us, as the type is neither in the Leiden 

 nor in the British Museum]. 

 Habitat: Halmahera, in sea. 



4. Ophichthys apicalis (Benn). 



Ophisums apicalis Bennett, Cat. Zool. Specim. in Memoir Life of Raffles 1830, p. 692. 

 Ophisuriis spadicens Richardson, Ichth. China & Japan, British Assoc. (1845) 



1846, p. 313. Zoology Voy. Erebus & Terror 184448, p. 103. 

 Ophisurus compar Richardson, Zoology Voy. Erebus & Terror, 1844 48, p. 105. 

 Ophisurus bangko Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV 1852, Muraenoid. p. 67. 

 Centrurophis spadiceus Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 2. 

 Centrurophis bangko Kaup, Ibid. p. 3. 

 Coecilophis compar Kaup, Ibid. p. 6. 

 Ophisurus Diepenhorsti Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-neerl. VIII. 1860, Achtste 



Bijdr. Sumatra, p. 85. 



Ophichthys banko Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 51. 

 Ophichthys diepenhorsti Bleeker, Ibid. p. 52. 

 Ophichthys apicalis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 70. 

 Ophichthys apicalis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV. (1871) 1872, p. 123. 



Height 2735; head 8.5 to more than 9, about 2.5 times 

 in trunk, head and body about 1.5 to 1.6 times in tail. Eye 



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o 

 o 



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oo 



o 





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Fig. 145. Dentition of Ophichthys apicalis (Benn.). a teeth on intermaxillary plate, 

 m maxillary, md mandibulary, v vomerine teeth. X 4- 



9 ii, nearly twice in snout, which is bluntly acute and promi- 

 nent. Posterior nostrils in advance of the eye, anterior ones in a 

 broad tube, shorter than eye. Dorsal about twice lower than 

 height of body, commencing somewhat before or behind end 

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