•^36 The Philippine Journal of Science 1923 



Anguilla celebesensis Kaup. 



Anguilla celebesensis Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fishes Brit. Mus. (1856) 42, 

 fig. 31; Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. 3 (1916) 

 247, figs. 99 and 101. 

 Anguilla megastoma Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fishes Brit. Mus. (1856) 50, 

 fig. 42; Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1905) 

 (1906) 192. 

 Anguilla amboinensis PETERS, Monatsher. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866) 



523. 

 Anguilla aneitensis Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 8 (1870) 34, 

 Fische d. Siidsee 3 (1910) 391. 

 Depth 14 in length, 1.83 in head; the latter 7.68 in length and 

 2.1 in trunk; head and trunk together equal to two-thirds length 

 of tail, the trunk alone 2.28 in tail ; eye, interorbital space, and 

 breadth of base of snout equal; snout 4.78 in head, gape 2.75, 

 pectoral fin 2.6. Mouth extends an eye diameter beyond eye. 

 Distance from head to origin of dorsal 1.38 times the length of 

 head ; from origin of dorsal to anus eight-elevenths of head. 



Teeth very numerous, pointed, uniform in size, depressible, 

 directed backward; intermaxillary and vomerine teeth form a 

 band which is slightly wider at 

 first than the maxillary bands 

 and tapers very gradually back- 

 ward until it is about two- 

 thirds as wide ; maxillary bands 

 separated from vomerine band 

 by toothless grooves; they taper 

 , muki very slightly and extend as far 

 back as the vomerine band does; 

 . bands in mandible separated by a toothless groove at apex of 

 jaws. 



Body stout, head flat and depressed, lips very thick, reflexed, 

 with large pores on lips and snout ; distance between origin of 

 dorsal and origin of anal almost equal to head. 



Color in alcohol blackish to grayish above, the sides more or 

 less mottled with yellowish, becoming pale yellow on chin, throat, 

 and belly; underside of tail and anal fin likewise mottled ; anal and 

 dorsal fins with pale or yellowish margins. In living specimens 

 pectoral dusky, pale margined, the yellow much more noticeable, 

 and the general color paler. 



Here described from a specimen from Lake Lanao, having the 

 following dimensions : Length, 845 millimeters ; depth, 60 ; head, 

 110; trunk, 232; tail, 512; eye, 9; snout, 23; gape, 40; pectoral, 



