. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILUS. * 0 38. HAPLOCHILUS MULTIFASCIATUS. Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxenib. 1013, p. 43. Depth of body 5 to 5J times in total length, length of head 3J to 3J times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, as long as eye; mouth directed upwards; lower jaw scarcely projecting; eye oj to 3^ times in length of head, IJ times in interorbital width; praeorbital about J diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from head as from root of caudal, above posterior fourth
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILUS. * 0 38. HAPLOCHILUS MULTIFASCIATUS. Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxenib. 1013, p. 43. Depth of body 5 to 5J times in total length, length of head 3J to 3J times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, as long as eye; mouth directed upwards; lower jaw scarcely projecting; eye oj to 3^ times in length of head, IJ times in interorbital width; praeorbital about J diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from head as from root of caudal, above posterior fourth of anal, longest rays about J length of head. Anal H-15, longest rays f to f length of head. Pectoral | length of head, just reaching base of ventral; ventral small, equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal pointed, median rays sometimes produced, longer than head. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 29-30 scales in longitudinal series, '20 round body in front of ventrals; lateral line indicated by a series of feeble pits. Pale brownish, with 7 blackish vertical bars, two above the anal and two on the caudal peduncle; narrower bars sometimes present. ILfploclillas multlfasdatus. Type, xli between the principal ones ; two black bars across the chin ; dorsal and caudal whitish, with small blackish spots; distal half of anal blackish, tlie bars of the body usually extending on its white basal half. Total length 4o millim. Kasai, Congo.—Types in Luxemburg Museum. 1-G. Types. Kondue, Kasai. M. E. Liija (C-.). 7-12. 30. HAPLOCHILUS GUAUAMI. Ooulcng. Ann. & N. II. (8) viii. 1011, p. 267. Depth of body 4 to 4^ times in total length, length of head 3 to 3J times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, a little shorter than eye ; mouth directed upwards ; lower jaw projecting ; eye 3 to 3J times in lengtli of head, IJ times in interorbital width; prseorbital barely \ diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating about twice as far from. Please note that t
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