1255 
Muraena allardlcel GUNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 
vol. 9, pt. 17, 1910, p. 421 (Society Islaids). 
Anarchias knight! JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisher,, 
vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 205, fig. 10. Apia. 
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Depth 16 1/3 to 19 1/2; head 8 1/3 to 9 1/8, 3 2/3 to 4 
4/5 to vent, width 3 l/5 to 4 1/5 in its length; combined 
head 1 to 1 1/4 in tail• Snout 5 4/5 to 6 in head; eye 10 
to 12, 1 3/4 to 2 in snout, 1 1/8 to 1 2/5 in interorbital; 
mouth cleft extends 2 eye diameters behind eye, length 2 1/3 
to 2 2/5 in head; teeth in jaws biserial, inner larger, well 
spaced and depressible; vomerine teeth with short single 
series; premaxillary teeth variable longer or shorter than 
inner jaw series, often 2 or 3 fang like and depressible; inter¬ 
orbital 7 to 7 1/4, low, broadly convex. Gill opening sub¬ 
equal with eye. 
Rudimentary fins only at end of tail. 
Uniform brown, mandible sometimes paler. Iris gray. 
Red Sea, Natal, Mauritius, East Indies, Philippines, 
Queensland, Micronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii, 
