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Genus Channomuraena Richardson 
Channo-muraena RICHARDSON, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, 
Ichth., 1844-48, p. 96. Type Ichtyophls vlttatus 
RICHARDSON, monotypic. 
Snout very short, less than 1/4 of mouth cleft. Eye 
well advanced. Mouth cleft long, nearly 1/2 of head. Teeth 
rather small, pointed, partly equal, in several series. Hind 
nostril short round tube or simple pore. Vertical fins 
rudimentary, confined to end of tail. Tail very short, about 
1/2 rest of body. 
Species few, strikingly colored. 
Channomuraena bennettii (Gtinther) 
Gymnomuraen a bennettli GUNTHER. Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 
vol. 8, 1870, p. l£>5. Mauritius. 
Gymnomuraena bennetti BLEEKER, Rech. Faune Madagascar, 
pt. 4, 1874, p. 73 (reference). 
