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19. Lycondontis moringa (Cuvier). Common Spotted Moray; Hamlet. 
Head 3.2; snout 6 in head; eye 1.5 in snout; cleft of mouth 2.5 in head; tail somewhat longer 
than trunk. Teeth strong and sharp; two or three long depressible teeth on vomer in front and a 
median row of small ones behind; teeth in jaws uniserial, long in front, those behind retrorse. 
Color in spirits: Dark-brown, everywhere mottled and reticulated with paler or light yellow, which 
is properly the ground-color, but is nearly covered by the dark pigment; ventral surface of head pale 
with a few brown spots; fins colored like body. 
West Indies, Pensacola to Rio Janeiro and St. Helena. Two young examples, about 7 inches 
long, from Culebra. 
Murxna maculata nigra (the Black Moray), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc., pi. '21, 173S, Bahamas. 
Murxna moringa Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. II, vol. II, 352, 1829, Bahamas: after Catesby. 
Gymnotliorax rostratus Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Bras., 91, pi. 50, a, 1829, Brazil; Stahl, 1. c., 80, 1883. 
Murxna moringua Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 89, 1811, Jamaica. 
Murxna punctata Gronow, Catalogue Fishes, 18, 1854, North America. 
Murenophis curvilineata Castelnau, Anim. Amer. Sud, Poiss., 81, pi. 42, fig. 2, 1855, Rio Janeiro. 
Murxnophis caramura Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. Rares Amdrique du Sud, 85, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1855, Bahia. 
Gymnolhorax flavoscriptus Poey, Enumeratio, 158, 1875, Cuba. 
Gymnotliorax picturatus Poey, Anal. Soe. Esp. Hist. Nat. 1880, 257, Cuba. 
Lycodontis moringa, Jordan & Evermann, 1. c., 395, 1896. 
20. Lycodontis funebris (Ranzani). Black Moray; Moreno, Verde. 
Tail a little longer than head and trunk. Teeth uniserial in jaws in the adult; teeth on vomer 
uniserial (var.? erebus), or biserial (funebris); long, depressible canines on front of vomer; jaws not 
completely closing; eye 2 to 2.5 in snout, above middle of gape; cleft of mouth 2.5 in head; head 2.5 
in trunk. 
Dark olive-brown, nearly plain, paler on throat, sometimes with very faint darker marblings; 
dorsal and anal fins with dark lines running longitudinally; belly without black transverse lines. 
Found in tropical America, on both coasts; the largest of our eels, reaching 5 or 6 feet or more; 
extremely ferocious; common from Florida Keys to Rio Janeiro and from Gulf of California to Panama. 
A single example, 4.12 inches long, obtained at Fajardo February 17, 1899. 
Murxna maculata nigra etviriMiis, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc., pi. 20, 1738, Bahamas. 
Gymnotliorax funebris Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sc. Bonon.,IV, 76, 1810, Brazil. 
Murxna lineopinnis Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 89, 1811, Puerto Cabello. 
Txniopliis westphali Kaup, Aale Hamburg Mus., I, 1859. 
Tlirysoidea aterrima Kaup, Aale Hamburg Mus., I, 22, 1859. 
Murxna infernalis Poey, Memorias, II, 347 and 354, 1860, Cuba. 
Tlirysoidea concolor Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 479., Vera Cruz. 
Murxna erebus Poey, Memorias, II, 426, 1861, Cuba. 
Lycodontis funebris, Jordan & Evermann, 1. e., 396, 1896. 
