377 



Gymnothorax tin dn In Ins Jordan & Ever man n, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXIII. 



(1903) 1905, p. 98. 



? Euryinyctera acutirostris Jordan & Evermann, Ibid. p. 105. 

 Gytnnothorax itndnlatus Scale, Occasional papers Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 



IV, 1906, p. 9. 



Muracna ujidulata Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 413. 

 Gytnnothorax stellatiis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia LXIV. 1912, p. 21. 

 Gymnotkorax undulalus Fowler, Ibid. p. 21. 



Gymnothorax stcllatus Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XLII. 1912, p. 492. 

 Gytnnothorax favagincus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913^ p- 5^ [nee 



Bloch, Schneider]. 



Gymnothorax macassariensis Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 61 [nee Blkr.]. 

 Gytnnothorax sagenodeta Max Weber, Ibid. p. 61 [nee Richardson]. 



Height 14 22; head 6'/ 2 8, 2 2.6 in trunk. Tail half length 

 of head longer than or nearly equal to head and trunk. Eye 

 8.5 to more than 10, situated about in the middle of the cleft 

 of the mouth, which goes 2 2 ] / 2 times in head. Even in adult 

 specimens the mouth can nearly be closed completely. Snout 

 rather long, compressed, i J / 2 l *U diameter of eye. Anterior 

 nasal tubes much shorter than diameter of eye. Dorsal and 



Fig. 1 86. Muraena (Gymnot/ioraxJ ttndulata (Lac.) var. fitnbriata. 

 g gillopening. nat. size. 



anal well developed, the former beginning before gillopenings. 

 In the maxillaries a row of 12 20 compressed teeth, the ante- 

 rior ones the largest. In young specimens anteriorly an inner 

 row of 3 I large, depressible teeth. Intermaxillary plate with 

 a peripheral series of 10 16 teeth, which are larger than 

 those of the maxillaries and with a median series of 3 fang- 

 like teeth. Vomer with 10 or less small teeth in an irregular 

 series. Mandibulary teeth 18 30, compressed, pointed, the 

 anterior ones longer and more irregularly placed, the posterior 

 ones in a single row. In the variety fimbriata the colour is 

 reddish brown, with several irregular longitudinal rows of black 

 round or irregularly oval spots, which are generally hot much 



