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Habitat: Java; Cocos Island. - - Japan, Mauritius, Savaii, 

 Tahiti and Sandwich Islands. 

 On reefs and near shore. 



2. Subgenus Strophidon McClelland. 

 (Me CLELLAND, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 1844, p. 187). 



Posterior nostrils without tube. Height 40 5 I. Teeth without 

 serrature. 



Fig. 179. Mttraena (Strophidon) brummeri Blkr. X 2 /5- 



i. Muraena (Strophidon) brummeri Blkr. 



Muraena Kmmmcri Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XVII. 1858 59, 'p. 137. 

 Strophidon polyodon Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 186465, p. 47. 

 Pseudechidna Brummeri Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 272. 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, PI. XVIII. fig. i. 



Strophidon Brummeri Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 109. 

 Strophidon polyodon Bleeker, Ibid. p. 109. 



Muraena brummeri Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 128. 

 Muraena polyodon Giinther, Ibid. p. 128. 

 Muraena taenioides Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 674. 



Strophidon Brummeri Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 855. 

 Muraena brummeri Gunther, Fische d. Siidsee, IX. 1910, p. 420. 

 Gymnothorax megapterus Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische, 1913, p. 57- 



Exceedingly elongate, height 40 51; head 12 17, 4.6 7 

 in trunk. Head and trunk nearly equal to tail or nearly one third 

 shorter. Eye about 17 20, nearly in the middle of the cleft 

 of the mouth, which shuts completely and goes 4 or less in length 

 of head. Snout acutely rounded; more than twice as long as 

 eye and 7 times in length of head. Dorsal commencing about 

 at the end of the second third of the head, its height ante- 

 riorly more or less than half the height of the body; above the 

 anus higher than or about as high as the height of the body 

 underneath, farther behind it may even increase compared 



