The head and neck are usually black, fading to tan posteriorly.

Its head is black, especially posteriorly, with small gray flecks.

The scales around the head and neck are the longest, decreasing posteriorly.

Posteriorly between the transverse process of T7 and T8 on the right.

This is no more true posteriorly with the pulvinar.

The shell surrounding the animal extends posteriorly into a long or short spine.

The narrow foot is long, pointed posteriorly, rounded before.

It is followed posteriorly by the retrosplenial cortex (area 29).

The disco-marginal area is dusted with brown scales, especially posteriorly.

These are wide but rather shorter than the abdomen which protrudes posteriorly.

If one presses down on the front of the doughnut the jelly moves posteriorly or to the back.

This produces a characteristic break in to the shell posteriorly and anteriorly.

Rostral very large, extending posteriorly far beyond the eyes.

It is shortened at the anterior end and elongated posteriorly.

The rounded outer lip is extended posteriorly beyond the apex.

At that point, the laryngopharynx is continuous with the esophagus posteriorly.

A gill array is present, along with a respiratory cavity opening posteriorly.

However, the intensity level decreases more posteriorly along the length of the eel's body.

On the head it has two blackish bands which diverge posteriorly.

The abdomen and thorax have a white dorsal line posteriorly.

The spots usually become confluent posteriorly, and appear as dark stripes on the tail.

The ureters run posteriorly on the lateral walls of the pelvis.

Sometimes, the lines do not meet medially, thus leading to a chevron marking posteriorly.

Large tonsils may be shifted posteriorly, under the ports of the flap.