Herre: Philippine Eels 



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Teeth small, the anterior ones larger, depressible, caninelike ; 

 maxillary teeth in one row, imperfectly two rowed, or in two 

 rows on one or both sides; a single row of four to ten teeth 

 on vomer; mandible with twelve to twenty-four teeth in a 

 single row on each side; the forward ones are enlarged and 

 may be irregularly two ranked. When the maxillaries have two 

 rows of teeth the eel is the polyodon of Bleeker. 



Color in alcohol uniform pale brown; head and especially 

 jaws with numerous dark dots; each pore on head in a dark dot; 

 fins paler, usually with a white margin. 



I have two specimens, one from Puerto Galera, Mindoro, the 

 other from Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao. 



Measurements of Pseudechidna brummeri. 



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A small, exceedingly slender eel with very elongate trunk, 

 attaining a length of 800 millimeters. It occurs from Mada- 

 gascar and Mauritius to the Riu Kiu Islands and southeast to 

 the New Hebrides, Samoan, and Society Islands. 

 Genus GYMNOTHORAX Bloch 



Fische 9 (1795) 83; Bleeker, 



This genus includes those morays in which the posterior 

 nostrils are round or oval openings on top of the head in front 

 of or above the eyes and sometimes provided with a rim but 

 never with a tube; the body is elongate but often thick and 

 heavy, the depth being less than 30 in the length; the teeth are 

 sharp, conical or compressed, not serrated, more or less pointing 

 backward; the jaw teeth are in one or more series, with one 

 or more rows of usually smaller teeth on the vomer; those on 

 the intermaxillary plate are in one or two outer rows and there 

 is a central row of from one to four depressible canines, the 

 posterior ones often being very long and startlingly resembling 

 the erectile fangs of poisonous snakes; Calmette states that they 

 have a poison gland at their base and are truly venomous ; some- 

 times the jaws have additional depressible canines but the total 



