17. Muraena (Gymnothorax) richardsoni Blkr. 



? Muraenophis flaveola Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Zool. 1830, p. 128. 



Muraena grisea Cuv.? Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXII. Bijdr. Ichth. Bali, (1848) 



1849, p. ii. 



Muraena Richardsonii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III, 1852, p. 296. 

 Muraena ceramensis Bleeker, Ibid. p. 297. 



Muraena scoliodon Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoid. p. 43. 

 Muraena Troschelii Bleeker, Ibid. p. 45. 



Muraena florisiana Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VI. 1854, p. 334. 

 Muraena vermicularis Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1855, p. 459. 

 Muraena diplodon Peters, Ibid. p. 460. 

 Muraena venosa Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish 1856, p. 68. 

 Thyrsoidea ceramensis Kaup, Ibid. p. 87. 

 Tkyrsoidea multifasciata Kaup, Ibid. p. 87. 



Gymnothorax floresianus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 252. 

 Gymnothorax venosus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 272. 

 Gymnothorax Richardsoni Bleeker, Atl. Icht. IV. 1864, p. 100. 

 Gymnothorax scoliodon Bleeker, Ibid. p. 101. 

 Gymnothorax ceramensis Bleeker, Ibid. p. 101. 



Gymnothorax richardsonii Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 1867. p. 385. 

 Muraena richardsoni Gitnther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 118. 

 Gymnothorax richardsoni Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bureau Fish. Washington 



XXVII. (1907) 1908, p. 240. 

 Gymnothorax richardsonii Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 414. 



Height 14 20. Head 6.5 7.5, 2.2 2.7 in trunk. Tail equal 

 to or a little longer than head and trunk. Eye 8 10, situated 

 above the middle of 

 the cleft of the mouth, 

 which goes 2.5 -3 

 times in length of 

 head. Snout conical, 

 slightly compressed, 

 about I ! / 2 times dia- 

 meter of eye. Ante- ^^___ 

 rior nostrils about half 



/ ^. 11 Fig. 189. Muraena (Gymnothorax) richardsoni 



as long as eye. Gill- Blkr g gillopeniDg . x ll/v 



openings as wide as 



the eye. Dorsal and anal moderately developed, the former 

 beginning somewhat before the gillopenings. Maxillaries with 

 a series of 8 12 strong, but rather short, compressed teeth, 

 in older specimens their number may decrease to 5. In young 

 specimens anteriorly an inner row of 3 4 more slender ones. 

 Intermaxillary plate with a peripheral series of 8 to 16 teeth, 

 not much stronger than those on the maxillaries and a mesial 



