Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . h above,golden yellow on the sides and beneath, each scale edged with purplish ;fin greyish. Total length 190 millim. Congo.—Type in Paris Museum. ALESTES. 217 21. ALESTES macrolepidotus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xxii. p. 157, pi. ccccccxxxix. (1849).Alestes macrolepidotus, Bilharz, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ix. 1852, p. 469, pi. xxxvii. ; Kuer, Denkschr. Ak. Wien, xviii. 1860, p. 19 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 313 (1864), and Pethericks Trav. ii. p. 242 (1869) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxi.
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . h above,golden yellow on the sides and beneath, each scale edged with purplish ;fin greyish. Total length 190 millim. Congo.—Type in Paris Museum. ALESTES. 217 21. ALESTES macrolepidotus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xxii. p. 157, pi. ccccccxxxix. (1849).Alestes macrolepidotus, Bilharz, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ix. 1852, p. 469, pi. xxxvii. ; Kuer, Denkschr. Ak. Wien, xviii. 1860, p. 19 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 313 (1864), and Pethericks Trav. ii. p. 242 (1869) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxi. i. 1870, p. 540, pi. i.; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1128; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 127, pi. xx. (1907).Alestes macrolepidotus, part., Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 158 (1901). Depth of body 3^ to A\ times in total length, length of head 3^- to4-f times. Head much flattened above, If to 2 times as long as broad,1J to 1^ times as long as deep, its width considerably greater than itslength to occiput; snout rounded and about as long as eye in young, more Fig. Alestes Nile (F. N.). \. pointed, projecting beyond lower lip, and 1\ to 2 times as long as eye inadult; eye infero-lateral, not or scarcely visible from above, well visiblefrom beneath, its diameter 3 (young) to 5|- times in length of head ;adipose eyelid scarcely developed; interorbital width 2 to 2\ times inlength of head; maxillary not reaching to below anterior border of eye ;16 to 20 teeth (gfjy) in upper jaw, 8 or 10 (-^-) in lower; lower borderof second suborbital as long as or a little longer than diameter of thin and moderately long, 18-22 on lower part of anteriorarch. Dorsal II 8 (rarely 7), above middle of space between ventralsand anal, considerably nearer caudal than occiput; first branchedray longest, f to ^ length of head. Anal HI 12-14. Pectoral aslong as head or a little shorter, sometimes nearly reaching ventral. 218 Caudal deeply f
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