. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. Clarias mellandi. Type (P. Z. S. 1907). 1. Type. L. Bangwelu. F. H. Melland, Esq., and Father Foulon (C). The following young specimens (85 and 145 millim. long) are referred with doubt to this species. In the smaller the vomerine band of teeth is crescentic, and only a little broader than the pra?maxillary, whilst in the larger it forms almost a half-disk. .16—20 gill-rakers on anterior arch. Dorsal 70. Anal 60. Distance between dorsal and caudal 4 to ^ length of head. 2-3.
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. Clarias mellandi. Type (P. Z. S. 1907). 1. Type. L. Bangwelu. F. H. Melland, Esq., and Father Foulon (C). The following young specimens (85 and 145 millim. long) are referred with doubt to this species. In the smaller the vomerine band of teeth is crescentic, and only a little broader than the pra?maxillary, whilst in the larger it forms almost a half-disk. .16—20 gill-rakers on anterior arch. Dorsal 70. Anal 60. Distance between dorsal and caudal 4 to ^ length of head. 2-3. Yg. Dongwenna, Mossamedes. Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 9. CLARIAS TSANENSIS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 438, Fish. Nile, p. 292, pi. li. fig. 2 (1907), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 1075. Depth of body 6| to 7-| times in total length, length of head 3| to 3f times. Head 1J to 1§ times as long as broad, perfectly smooth above; vertex very strongly flattened, almost concave in the ad alt;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis]
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