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 10. Muraena (Gymnothorax) navimarginata Riipp. 



Muraena flavimarginata Riippell, Atl. Reise nordl. Afrika, Fische des Rothen 



Meeres, 1828, p. 119. 



Muraena pratbernon Richardson, Zool. Voy. Erebus & Terror, 1844, p. 84 (nee Q.G.). 

 Muraena batttensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XII. 1856 1857, p. 241. 

 Muraena javanica Blacker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIX. 1859, p. 347. 

 Gymnothorax rhodocephalus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. (1864) 1865, 



p. 50. Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 93. 

 Gymnothorax formosus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. (1864) 1865, p. 50. 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 94. 



Gymnothorax javanicus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 95. 

 Gymnothorax flavimarginatus Bleeker, I.e. p 95. 

 Muraena formosa Gunther. Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. in. 

 Muraena flavomarginata Gunther, I.e. p. 119. 

 Muraena flavimarginata Klunzinger, Verhandl. zool. bot. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, 



p. 615. 



Muraena javanica Klunzinger, I.e. p. 616. 



Muraena flavimarginata Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1 888, p. 671. 

 Gymnothorax thalassopterus Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. XXII. (1902) 



1904, p. 427. 

 Gymnothorax flavimarginatus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXIII. 



(1903) 1905, p. 99. 

 Gymnothorax flavomarginattis Scale, Occas. Papers Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 



IV. N. i, 1906, p. 9. 

 Gymnothorax flavomarginatus Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bureau Fish. XXVII. 



(1907) 1908, p. 240. 



Muraena flavimarginata Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 417. 

 Gymnothorax flavimarginatus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science Philadelphia 



LXIV. 1912, p. 22. 

 Gymnothorax batuensis Fowler, 1. c. p. 22. 



Height 15 22; head 8 9, more than 3 to 3.5 in trunk. 

 Head and trunk equal to or about one tenth shorter than tail. 

 Eye 8 n, about in the middle above the cleft of the mouth. 

 Snout rather short, less than twice diameter of eye. Anterior 

 nostrils in a very short tube. Cleft of mouth 2.3 2.5 in length 

 of head. The mouth can be shut completely. Dorsal mode- 

 rately developed, beginning before gillopenings, which are about 

 equal to diameter of eye. In the maxillaries on each side a 

 row of about u 15 compressed conical teeth, in young 

 specimens there is anteriorly an inner row of 3 long and slender 

 teeth. On the intermaxillary plate a peripheral series of 8 10 

 long teeth, with some smaller teeth between them, and a 

 median series of 3 or 2 fang-like ones. Vomer with two series 

 of small conical teeth, diverging anteriorly and forming one 

 irregular series posteriorly; the teeth on the forked part often 

 seem to be wanting, in which case the vomerine teeth are 



