Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 399 



Sidera chlevustes. JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 208, Galapagos. (Type, No. 



20385. Coll. Capt. Herendeen.) 

 Gymnothorax chlevastes, JORDAN & DAVIS, I. c., 605. 



Subgenus PRIODONOPHIS, Kaup. 



658. LTCODONTIS OCELLATUS (Agassiz). 



(SPOTTED MORAY.) 



Teeth all uniserial in jaws, rather large and strong, the posterior edge 

 of the larger teeth serrate, like the teeth of a shark ; vomer with few 

 small teeth or none; jaws nearly or quite closing ; head 2 to 2 in trunk, 

 3i to 4| in tail ; eye li to If in snout ; cleft of mouth 2-fc to 3 in the head ; 

 tail a little longer than rest of body. Color brown above, lighter below, 

 with irregular light yellowish spots, variable in size and sometimes so 

 thickly placed that the ground work appears as brown reticulations; 

 dorsal fin with large dark spots on the edge, the spots often running 

 together, so as to form a black band (or sometimes obsolete) ; anal fin 

 with a dark edge. 



In typical specimens, (var. ocellatus), the spots are of moderate size, 

 much larger than pupil, rounded and yellowish in color, subequal and 

 not so wide as the interspaces; cheeks coarsely spotted. West Indian 

 Fauna. Pensacola to Rio Janeiro ; a small species, rarely exceeding 18 

 inches in length ; abundant and variable, (ocellatus, with eye-like spots.) 



Gymnotlurrax ocellatus, AGASBIZ, Spix, Pise. Brasil, 91, pi. 50 b, 1828, Brazil ; GOODE & BEAN, 



Proc. U. S. Nat MUB., 1879, 344 ; JORDAN & DAVIS, I. c., 606. 

 Priodonophis ocellatus, POEY, Synopsis, 427, 1868. 

 Mursena ocellata, GUNTHER, vn, 102, 1870 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 356, 1883. 



Represented in deeper water off Cuba and the Pensacola Snapper Banks 



by 



658a. LTCODONTIS OCELLATUS SAXICOLA (Jordan & Davis). 



Edge of dorsal and anal with confluent black blotches, forming a dark 

 margin to the fin, the anal chiefly black. Dark ground color forming 

 reticulations around roundish and polygonal pale spots of various sizes, 

 these larger on the tail, the spots everywhere much wider than the inter- 

 spaces. Otherwise similar to the typical ocellatus. (saxum, rock ; colo t I 

 inhabit.) 



Murstmameleagris, QUOY & GAIMARD, Voy. Freycinet, Zob'L, 245, pi. 52, fig. 2, 1824, (not of SHAW). 



Gymnothorax ocellatus saxicola, JORDAN & DAVIS, I. c., GOG, Snapper Banks off Pensacola. 



Priodonophis inelea<jris, POEY, Repertorio, n, 262, 1867. 



Sidera ocellata, JORDAN, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1882, 42. 



Murtena ocellata, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 260. 



Replaced in shallow, sandy bays (Pensacola Bay ; St. Joseph Island, 

 Texas) by 



658b. LTCODONTIS OCKLLATUS NIGROMARGINATUS (Girard). 



Spots very small, stellate, not much larger than pupil; spots whitish; 

 cheeks finely spotted like the rest of the body ; body slender, a dusky 

 shade along sides ; fins chiefly black. Otherwise similar to var. ocellatus. 

 (niger, black; marginatus, edged.) 



