Alabes cuvieri Me Clelland 
Alabes cuverlae MC CLELLAND, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., 
vol• 5, 1845, p. 221. Indian Ocean. (Evidently on 
CUVIER.) 
Alabes cuvieri VAILLANT, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist, Nat. Paris 
ser. 4, vol. 7, 1905, p. 149. (India and New Holland.) 
Suborder Synbranchoidea 
IWWMWIHI ii i ill nni nimiiinii umiiiii ■ \mn ... 
. . . 1— winn i i r r— r ~t - 
Mouth moderately large. Palate with crescentic band or 
series of teeth on palatines and pterygoids. Opercle subtri- 
angular• Slull elongate. Dorsal and anal vestigeal. 
trals. Vent in posterior half of body. 
No ven- 
