. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. t. RHINAMURaiNA Gar This genus differs from Eurymi/tinwliich are iiroduced into long flaps. ing the anterior nostrils slit and dilated at the ends, 169. Rhlnamuraena qusesita Garman. Marshall IsUhiiiamurmia quicsUa Garman, Bull. Essex Inst, 111,1RhinamursBna eritima Jordan & Seale, spei Samoa. Head in total length, in body anterior to vent; depth 2 in head; vent exactly midwaybetween tip of snout and tip of tail; length of snout, from posterior nostril, in head; eye 2 insnout; angle of jaws in head; jaws curved and can not be comple
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. t. RHINAMURaiNA Gar This genus differs from Eurymi/tinwliich are iiroduced into long flaps. ing the anterior nostrils slit and dilated at the ends, 169. Rhlnamuraena qusesita Garman. Marshall IsUhiiiamurmia quicsUa Garman, Bull. Essex Inst, 111,1RhinamursBna eritima Jordan & Seale, spei Samoa. Head in total length, in body anterior to vent; depth 2 in head; vent exactly midwaybetween tip of snout and tip of tail; length of snout, from posterior nostril, in head; eye 2 insnout; angle of jaws in head; jaws curved and can not be completely closed; dorsal high inhead; anal about one-half as high as dorsal; origin of anal immediately posterior to vent; origin ofdorsal about midway between gill-openings and angle of jaws; gill-openings size of eye; anteriornostrils on end of snout long, about equal to eye, terminating in an expanded disk two-thirds as wideas eye; posterior nostrils consisting of slightly elevated tubes situated on upper side of snout directly. above anterior margin of eye; top of snout flat with a narrow concave groove; depth of snout at ante-rior margin of eye slightly less than width; forehead evenly rounded from posterior of eyes; teeth inlower jaw in a single row of 25 sharp, concave teeth on each side, the anterior five being enlarged:posterior teeth of upper jaw small and uniserial, the anterior teeth large biserial canines, three ufwhich are on the median line of vomer; a single row of blunt palatine teeth; throat with numerouslongitudinal wrinkles. Life colors, light-grayish brown, paler below; dorsal dusky with a sharply defined bluish whiteedge; anal with a faint pale edge. Color in spirits earth-brown, yellowish on belly and under part ofhead, dorsal and anal with distinct white margins, that of the dorsal broader, the posterior third ofdorsal shading into an intermarginal black area, a yellowish wash on head posterior to eye. This very handsome eel is known to us from a single
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