. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. FISHES OK THE ISLANDS OF LUZON AND PANAY. 7 in eye; teeth slender, even, sharp, arranged in single series; no canines; upper jaw wider than lower and projecting around it; snout sharp, about in head; anterior nostril mth a moderate tube; gill openings small, placed rather low. Pectorals long, in head; insertion of dorsal close behind ba,se of pectoral. Dorsal fin very low, not much higher than eye. Anal very low; tip of tail without fin. Color light brown, darkened above by minute dots, which become sparse below; no d
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. FISHES OK THE ISLANDS OF LUZON AND PANAY. 7 in eye; teeth slender, even, sharp, arranged in single series; no canines; upper jaw wider than lower and projecting around it; snout sharp, about in head; anterior nostril mth a moderate tube; gill openings small, placed rather low. Pectorals long, in head; insertion of dorsal close behind ba,se of pectoral. Dorsal fin very low, not much higher than eye. Anal very low; tip of tail without fin. Color light brown, darkened above by minute dots, which become sparse below; no distinct spots or bars; fins plain yellowish. A single specimen, inches long, was taken by Dr. Lung at Cavite. It is numbered 99S4 in Stanford University. The species is close to Jenkinsiella macgregori {Microdonophls macgregori Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Com- mission XXII, 1902, p. 422) described by Jenkins from Maui, Hawaii. It differs from that species in the more posterior insertion of the dorsal, in the lower dorsal, and much longer pectoral. The coloration is much the same, but the tail is much longer in the Philippine species, JenhinsieUa nectiim. The fringe of barbels, as in the genus Cirrhimuriena, well separates Jenkinsiella from Microdonophis. Family 24. Moringua lumbricoidea Richardson. One specimen, inches in length, from Cavite. Family MUR/ENID^F. GYMNOTHORAX Bloch. 25. Gymnothorax philippinus Jordan & Seale, new Fig. 2.—GiimnothoTax .lordaii <& Seale. new species. Type. Head in trunk; length of head and trunk greater than length of tail by a distance equal to length of snout; eye rather large, in snout; length of mouth to angle in head; a single row of sharp-pointed teeth in lower jaw; teeth in upper jaw in a single row, reinforced by 3 or 4 additional teeth in palatine series; three large fang-like vomerine teetli in front, with a row of smaller ones extending back; anterior teeth large canines
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