EEL. 781 
2. ANGUILLA VULGARIS Turton. 
Common Kel. 
EUROPEAN SYNONYMY. (var. vulgaris? ) 
Murena anguilla, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 426.—BLocH and SCHNEIDER, Systema Ich- 
thyol., 486, and of all early writers. 
Anguilla vulgaris, TURTON, British Fauna, §7.—FLEMING, British Animals, 199—GuN- 
THER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mas., vill, 28, and of European authors generrally. 
Anguilla canariensis, callensis, acutirostris, mediorostris, oxyrhina, pekinensis, migratoria, 
fluviatilis, cuvieri, bibronti, savignyt, morena, marginata, microptera, altirostris, 
platycephala, latirostris, nilotica, egyptiaca, hibernica, and many other names of Euro- 
pean species- makers. 
AMERICAN SYNONYMY. (var. rostrata ? ) 
Murena anguilla, Scuoprr, Beobacht. Naturforscher, Berlin, viii, 138. 
Anguilla vulgaris, MiTcRILL (1814), Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., i, 360; Am. Mo. Mag., ii, 
241.— GUNTHER (1570), Cat. Fishes, viii, 30.—‘‘ DARESTE, Monograph of Anguilliform 
Fishes,”—fide BAIRD (unites into one, all the species of Anguilla described from the 
Northern Hemisphere). 
Murena rostrata, LESUEUR, Journ, Phil. Ac. Se i, 81,—Ricu, F. B. A, iii, 267. 
Anguilla rostrata, DEKay, Fishes N. Y., 312.—STORER, Synopsis, 485.—JorDAN (1876), 
Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 96.; Man. Vert., 304, sec. ed., 338. 
Murena bostoniensis, LeESuEuR, Journ. Acad., i, 81—SrTorER, Rept. Fishes Mass., 158 — 
THOMPSON (1842), Hist. Vt., 148. 
Anguilla bostoniensis, DEK AY, Fishes N. Y., 313 —Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, iv, 279.— 
STORER, Synopsis, 485; Fishes Mass., 1855, 408. —GILL, Cat, Fishes East Coast, 1861, 
56; Can. Nat, Aug., 1865, 20; Rept. U. S. Fish Commission, 1871-72, 811.—GuNTHER, 
Cat. Fishes, 1870, viii, 31, and of late authors generally. 
Anguilla serpentina, STORER, Synopsis, 486.—GILL, Cat. Fishes BE. Ceast, 1861, 56. 
Murceena serpentina, LESUEUR, l.c., i. 82.—STORER, Rept. Fishes, 158.—THompson, Hist 
Vt., 1842, 148. 
Anguilla argentea, DEKay, Fishes N. Y., 313 —SToRER, Synopsis, 485.—Gii1, 1 ¢. 
Murena macrocephala, LESUEUR, |c., 82. 
Anguilla macrocephala, DeKay, |.c., 313 —STORER, Synopsis, 486.—GILL, lc, 82. 
Anguilla laticauda, RAFINESQUE, Ich. Oh., 77. 
Anguilla aterrima, RAFINESQUE, | c., 78. 
Anguilla canthomelas, RAFINESQUE, l.c., 78. 
Anguilla lutea, RAFINESQU#, l.c., 738.—KIRTLAND, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, 234.— 
STORER, Synopsis, 486, and of some Western writers. 
Anguilla tenuirostris, DrKay, Fishes N. Y., 310.—‘‘ Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish, 44.” 
Anguilla novecorleanensis, KAUP, l¢., 43. 
Anguiila punctatissima, KAUP, lc, 44. 
Anguilla texana, KAUP, 1c. 45 —GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes, viii, 32. 
Anguilla nove terrw, KAUP, 1.¢., 45.—GILL, l.c , 1861, 56. 
Anguilla wabashensis, KAUP, l.c., 46. 
Anguilla tyrannus, GIRARD, U.S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 1859, 75. 
Body cylindrical, compressed behind, ending in a point; head long, flattened above ; 
mouth horizontal, extending to beyond the eye, the lower jaw rather the longer; eye 
