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Muraena tessellata RICHARDSON. Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 
1844, p. 109, pi. 55, figs. 5-8. Southern Seas 
(locality unknown); Voy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., 
1844-48, p. 88 (Southern Seas?). — GUNTHER, Cat. 
Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 8, 1870, p. 10 (type of 
Muraena python. Muraena tessellata. Muraena 1sin g- 
teens , Zanzibar, East Indies, Mauritius). — 
SCHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, 1874, p. 58 
(South Sea). — PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Wise. Berlin, 
1876, p. 446 (Mauritius). — DAY, Fishes of India, 
pt. 4, 1878, p. 670, pi. 171, fig. 4 (Vizagapatam). 
— SCHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, 1879, p. 60 
(South Sea). —* p6hL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 1884 
p. 39 (South Sea). — BOULENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
London, 1889, p. 242 (Muscat). —- DAY, Fauna Brit. 
India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 78. — STEINDACHNER, 
Denks. Akad. Wlss. Wien, Math.-nat. Kl., vol. 71, pt; 
1, 1907, p. 158 (Bal Haf, Abd el Kurl west of Socotra) 
