. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILUS. 63 23. HAPLOCHILUS HUTEREAUL Bouleng. Rev. Zool. Afr. ii. 1913, p. 159. Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3^ to 3£ times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, shorter than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye nearly as long as postocular part of head, about § to f- interorbital width ; praeorbital not quite J diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from end of snout Fig. Tla
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILUS. 63 23. HAPLOCHILUS HUTEREAUL Bouleng. Rev. Zool. Afr. ii. 1913, p. 159. Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3^ to 3£ times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, shorter than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye nearly as long as postocular part of head, about § to f- interorbital width ; praeorbital not quite J diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from end of snout Fig. Tlaplochilus hutermui. Type. or anterior border of eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest rays as long as head or a little shorter. Anal 13-15. Pectoral | to f length of head, extending beyond root of ventral; latter nearer end of snout than root of caudal. Caudal rounded, as long as head. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 23-24 scales in longitudinal series, 16 round body in front ofventrals; lateral line absent. Yellowish, the scales edged Avith dark brown; fins white, with four or five blackish bars or transverse series of blackish spots on the posterior half of the dorsal and anal and on the caudal. Total length 35 millim. Uelle River, Upper Congo, and Lake Mweru.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. One of the types. Dungu, Uelle. M. Hutereau (C). 24. HAPLOCHILUS LOATI. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 44G, and Fish. Nile, p. 417, pi. Ixxix. fig. 7 (1907). Depth of body 3| to 5 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4£ times. Head flat above; snout very short, shorter than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting ; eye less than 3 times in length of head, as long as postorbital part of head, \\ times in interorbital width; praeorbital about ^ diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating twice as far from eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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