THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of .Science 



A. General Science 



Vol. IV NOVEMBEE. 1909 Xo. 6 



NEW SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE FISHES. 



By Alvin Seale. 



(From the Section of Fisheries, Biological Lahoraiorij, Bureau of Science, 



Mimila, P. I.) 



The present paper is based on the study of about ten thousand speci- 

 mens of fishes collected in the Philippine Islands by the author and his 

 native assistants, C. Canonizado and Datto Alii, during 1907 and 

 1908. The collections were made in almost all the important islands of 

 the Archipelago. All of the specimens were taken to Stanford University 

 and compared with the material in the collection of that institution which 

 included a number of types. All types mentioned in this paper are in 

 the ichthyological collection. Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. 



I take this opportunity to thank President David StaiT Jordan for 

 valuable suggestions in regard to the work. 



Family MUE^NID.E. The Morays. 



Gymnothorax indong' Seale, sp. nov. [Indong-indong.] 



^ Head 3. -50 in body to anal pore; tail is longer than the body by a 

 distance equal to about two-thirds of head; eye 2 in snout; snout 5 in 

 head; interorbital space eqiial to eye. Mouth large, the jaws not closing 

 completeh', mandible 1.70 in head; gape 2. Teeth strong and saber-like, 



' Indong is a Jloro name for Morays. 



-All comparative measurements in this paper are taken in tlie length from 

 tip of snout to end of last caudal vertebra, and tlie head is measured to posterior 

 edge of hard operculum and excluding the membraneous opercular flap. Scale 

 count is to end of caudal vertebra, the vertical series being counted at origin of 

 anal, unless otherwise stated. 



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