363 



/3. Tail longer than or nearly equal 



to head and trunk. Lines on body 



and tail rather coarse. Head 2 2.6 



in trunk M. () undulala v&t.iuidiilata\>. 37^. 



y. Tail a little longer or shorter than 



head and trunk. Lines on body and 



tail rather coarse. Head 3 in trunk. M. (.) favaginea vax.favuginea p. 378. 

 8. Head, trunk and tail uniform brown. 



a. Dorsal high, above anus about equal 



to height of body. Height 2026 . M. (.) hepatica p. 385. 



b. Dorsal moderately developed, lower 



than height above anus. Height 12 20 M. (G.) boschi p. 386. 

 Doubtful species M. (6*.) uiicropoecilus p. 387. 



I. Muraena (Gymnothorax) picta Ahl 



[Fig. 175, 1 80, p. 356, 360]. 



Muraena picla Ahl, De Muraena & Ophichtho, Dissert. Upsala 1789, p. 6. 

 Gymnolhorax pictus Bloch, Schneider, System. Ichth. 1801, p. 529. 

 Muraenophis pantherina Lacepede, Hist. nat. poissons, V. 1803^.628,641, 643. 

 Muraena variegata Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage Uranie, Zool. 1824, p. 246. 

 Muraena Ufa Richardson, Voy. Erebus & Terror, Fish. 1844, p. 84. 

 Muraena siderea Richardson, 1. c. p. 85. 

 Muraena lita Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 294. Verh. 



Batav. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoid. p. 47. 

 Muraena pfeifferi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie V. 1853, p. 173. Verh. 



Batav. Gen. XXV. Aanhangsel 1853, Muraenoiden p. 73. 

 Sidera pfeifferi Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 70. 

 Sidera pantherina Kaup, I.e. p. 71. 

 Muraena polyophthaluius Bleeker, Acta Soc. Sc. indo-neerl. III. loe Bijdr. Celebes, 



1858, p. 15. 



Gymnothorax pantherinus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 152. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 87. 

 Gymnothorax polyophthaltnus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 96. 

 Mtiraena picta Giinther, Fish. Zanzibar, 1866, p. 126. 

 Gymnothorax picttts Kner, Fische Novara 1865 1867, p. 384. 

 Muraena polyophthalmus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 109. 

 Muraena picta Giinther, Ibid. p. 116. 

 Muraena picta Day, Fish. India 4 18781888, p. 672. 

 Muraena picta Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. nat. Ges. XXV. 1901, p. 457. 

 Gymnothorax pictiis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 103. 



Gymnothorax pictus, litus^ polyophthalmus Jordan Scale, 1. c. XXV. (1905) 



1906, p. 198, 199. 



Muraena picta Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 419. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 



Coll. XXVI. 1911, p. 246. 



Gymnothorax pic his M. Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 59. 

 Gymnothorax polyophthalmus M. Weber, Ibid. p. 59. 



