10 CHECK-LIST OF PHILIPPINE FISHES. 



CIRRHIMUR/ENA Kaup. 



This genus may be provisionally recognized for those ophichthyid eels which 

 have the maxillary teeth in bands, the lips fringed, and the dorsal inserted over 

 or behind the gill-opening. 



59. Cirrhimuraena tapeinoptera (Bleeker). Cavite (Jordan & Scale, A); 



Manila (Jordan & Richardson). 

 CO. Cirrhimuraena nectura (Jordan & Scale) Cavite (Jordan & Seale, A). 



Jenkinsiella 1 nectura Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XXVI, 

 1906, 6-, fig. 1; Cavite, P. I. 



PISOODONOPHIS Kaup. 



61. Pisoodonophis cancrivorus (Richardson). Philippine Islands (Gunther; 

 Richardson, A) ; Manila; Cuyo (Jordan & Richardson). 



02. Pisoodonophis macgregori Jordan & Richardson. Manila (Jordan & Rich- 

 ardson ) . 



Pisoodonophis macgregori Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 

 XXVII, 238, 1908. Manila, P. I. 



LEIURANUS Bleeker. 



63. Leiuraniis lithinus Jordan & Richardson. Cuyo (Jordan & Richardson). 



Leiuranus lithinus Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., XXVII, 

 239, 1908. Cuyo, P. I. 



CCECULA Vahl. (Dalophis Rafinesque.) 



64. Coecula mindora Jordan & Richardson. Mindoro (Jordan & Richardson). 



Ccecula, mindora Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., XXVII, 239. 

 1908. Mindoro, P. I. 



Family MORINGUID^E. 

 MORINGUA Gray. (Aphthalmichthys Kaup.) 



65. Moringua abbreviata (Bleeker). Negros (Jordan & Seale, B) ; Ticao (Jordan 



& Richardson ) . 



66. Moringua lumbricoidea Richardson. Negros (Jordan & Seale, B). 



67. Moringua macrocephala (Bleeker). Luzon (Peters, C). 



1 Microdonophis macgregori Jenkins (Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXII, 1902, p. 

 422), the type of Jenkinsiella Jordan & Evermann, with lips fringed, maxillary 

 teeth uniserial (fide Jenkins), and dorsal inserted far in advance of gill-openings 

 seems to be congeneric with Ophichthys (Cirrhimuraena) calamus Gunther, from 

 Australia. The orignal description of Cirrhimurcena (Jenkinsiella) nectura 

 (Jordan & Seale) erroneously states that the maxillary teeth are in a single 

 series. A reSxamination of the type proves that they are in broad bands. Of 

 the four species included by Dr. Gunther in the subdivision Cirrhimurcena, one, 

 Ophichthys playfairii Giinther, from Zanzibar, with the teeth in bands, the lips 

 fringed, and dorsal commencing "a short distance behind angle of mouth," appears 

 to be intermediate between Jenkinsiella (macgregori) and Cirrhimurcena as above 

 defined. 



