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the diagnosis he also says that this species is characterized by : 

 "la queue, qui est beaucoup plus longue que le tronc". In his 

 diagnosis however it is clear that the reverse is meant. 



2. Gymnomuraena concolor (Riipp.). 



Uropterygius concolor Riippell, Neue Wirbelth. Fische 1835, p. 83. 

 Gymnomuraena fusca Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin (1866) 1867, p. 524. 

 Gymnomuraena concolor Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 134. 

 Gymnomuraena fnsca Giinther, Ibid. p. 134. 

 Gymnomuraena concolor Klunzinger, Abh. Zool. botan. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, 



p. 620. 

 Uropterygius marmoratus Snyder, Bull. U. S. fish. Comm. XXII. (1902) 1904, 



p. 521 (nee Lacepede). 

 Uropterygius concolor Jordan & Scale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXV111. 1905, p. 772. 



Bull. Bureau fisheries Washington XXV. (1905) 1906, p. 206. 

 Anarchias allardicei Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bureau fisheries Washington XXV. 



(1905) 1906, p. 205. 



Muraena allardicei Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 421 (s. syn.). 

 Gymnomuraena concolor Giinther, Ibid. p. 426. 

 'Uropterygius concolor Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Harvard College 



XXVI. 1911, N. 7, p. 250. 



Gymnomuraena concolor Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 63. 

 Anarchias allardicei de Beaufort, Bijdrage Dierkunde Aflev. 19, 1913, p. 101 (s. syn.). 



Height 20 to about 33; head between 7.1 8.4, 2.4 to nearly 

 3 in trunk. Head and trunk equal to or shorter than tail, this 

 may be as much as half or more than half length of head '). 

 Eye 10 12, situated above about the middle of the cleft of 

 mouth, which goes 2.6 3.4 in length of head, is horizontal and 

 shuts completely or nearly so. Snout blunt, rounded, 5.8 to more 

 than 6 times in length of head. Anterior nostrils in a conspi- 

 cuous tube, posterior nostrils with an elevated rim at least in our 



i) In our specimens the length of head, trunk and tail are as follows 

 13-5 34-5 50 

 13 35 -- 50 

 13 37 50 



I5-538.5- 56 



16 42 - - 58 



15 42 -- 59 



15 35 62 



1 6 43 -- 77 



23 72 95 



24 70 101 



2 3 63 112 



32 84 145 



gillopenings below middle of the height. 



gillopenings in middle of the height. 



