. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). PELMATOCHROMIS, TILAPIA AND SAROTHERODON 5 An intense opercular spot; a tilapia-mark on base of dorsal at junction of spinous and soft parts. The distinguishing characters and synonymies are as follows. P. ocellifer Boulenger, 1899 : 104; id. igoi : 421; id. 1915 : 391 fig. 264. Paratilapia nigrofasciata (nee Pellegrin); Steindachner, 1914 : 54 (R. Ja). HoLOTYPE. BM(NH) , 64-5 mm inSL, from Monsembe (Mosembe), Middle Congo, °2o' N, 19° E. coll. J. E. Weeks. Teeth unicuspid, curved cones at all known stages, in bands 3-5 teeth
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). PELMATOCHROMIS, TILAPIA AND SAROTHERODON 5 An intense opercular spot; a tilapia-mark on base of dorsal at junction of spinous and soft parts. The distinguishing characters and synonymies are as follows. P. ocellifer Boulenger, 1899 : 104; id. igoi : 421; id. 1915 : 391 fig. 264. Paratilapia nigrofasciata (nee Pellegrin); Steindachner, 1914 : 54 (R. Ja). HoLOTYPE. BM(NH) , 64-5 mm inSL, from Monsembe (Mosembe), Middle Congo, °2o' N, 19° E. coll. J. E. Weeks. Teeth unicuspid, curved cones at all known stages, in bands 3-5 teeth wide in both jaws, 38-52 in outer series of upper jaw, about 6 anterior outer sUghtly longer than the rest, inner a Uttle shorter than the outer (fig. lA). Premaxillary pedicels 27â 7-30-1% length of head; interorbital width 30-i-33-2%. Gill-rakers on first arch (2-3) + i + (6-7) (fig. 2). Pad on roof of pharynx not boot-shaped, no groove or a very shallow one before it. Width of lower pharyngeal bone 24-0-29-5% length of head; teeth of its middle rows few and spaced, some blunted (fig. 4). .d"^''. Pelmatochromis ocellifer. Monsembe. Fig. 2. Pelmatochromis ocellifer, from Boulenger, 1915 fig. 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). London : BM(NH)
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