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Note. This species has been recorded by WAITE (Rec. 

 Australian Mus. VI. 1905, p. 58) from Western Australia, but 

 Me CULLOCH (Rec. Western Austr. Mus. I. (2) 1912, p. 80) 

 identified the specimen in question as his G. ivoodwardi. 



8. Muraena (Gymnothorax) petelli Blkr. 



Mtiraena Petelli Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XI. 1856, p. 84. 



Muraena interrupta Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish 1856, p. 67. 



Gymnothorax Petelli Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 99. 



Muraena petelli Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 105. 



Gymnothorax leucacme Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXII. (1902) 1904, p. 427. 



Gymnothorax waiahtae Snyder, Ibid. p. 5 2 - 



Gymnothorax petelli Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bureau Fish. XXVII. (1907) 



1908, p. 240. 

 Mnraena petelli Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 412. 



Height 1 8 20, head 8 9%, 2 2 / 5 3 times in trunk. Tail 

 longer than head and trunk. Eye 9 10, situated somewhat 

 nearer to the end of the snout than to the corner of the mouth. 

 Snout rather pointed, not twice as long as eye. Cleft of mouth 

 about 2*/ 4 times in head. Mouth not shutting completely in 

 old specimens. Dorsal rather low, beginning before gillopenings, 

 which are about as wide as eyes. Maxillaries with a series ot 

 12 14 conical, somewhat compressed teeth, anteriorly with 

 an inner series of three long depressible teeth, which disappear 

 with age. On intermaxillary plate a peripheral series of about 

 12 rather long depressible teeth, mesially with 2 or 3 larger 

 fang-like ones. Vomer with a single series of 3 conical teeth. 

 Mandibles with 18 25 teeth on each side in a single series. 

 Brown, with 17 24 dark crossbands, which are generally larger 

 than the interspaces between them. They are interrupted on 

 the belly. The first band on the snout, the third through origin 

 of dorsal. In old examples most of the bands are broken into 

 spots, but the anterior dorsal bands remain distinct. Length 

 1 100 mm. [Specimens of BLEEKER'S collection in the Leiden 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Ora Malang); Ambon. Mauritius, Red 

 Sea, Indian Ocean, Philippines, Riu-Kiu Islands, Pacific to 

 Sandwich Islands. 



9. Muraena (Gymnothorax) rtippelli Me Clell. 



Muraena colubrina Lace"pede, Hist. nat. Poiss. V. 1803, p. 627, 641, 642 

 (nee Boddaert). 



