. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 418 CICHLID,E. 31. PELMATOCHROMIS FLAVIPINNIS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mng. N. H. (7) xvii. 190G, p. 441, aud Fish. Nile, p. 448, pi. Ixxxix. fig. 3 (1907). Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. Head large, slightly more than twice as long as broad, with concave upper profile; snout as long as broad. If times as long as eye, which is 5 times in length of head, l:j times in interorbital width, and equals prreorbital depth ; mouth oblique, not extending qu
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 418 CICHLID,E. 31. PELMATOCHROMIS FLAVIPINNIS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mng. N. H. (7) xvii. 190G, p. 441, aud Fish. Nile, p. 448, pi. Ixxxix. fig. 3 (1907). Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. Head large, slightly more than twice as long as broad, with concave upper profile; snout as long as broad. If times as long as eye, which is 5 times in length of head, l:j times in interorbital width, and equals prreorbital depth ; mouth oblique, not extending quite to below anterior border of eye ; lower jaw projecting ; teeth in 3 or 4 series, outer largest and curved, 58 in upper jaw ; 6 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part much greater than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 9 on lower pan of anterior arch. Dorsal XV" 9 ; spines increasing in length to the last, vi'hich measures J length of head; longest soft rays a little more than ^ lengtli of head. Anal 111 8 ; third spine a little shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral | length of head, not reaching origin of anal. Venti'al reaching vent. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as Fehnatochromis Jiuvipianls. ). f. Scales denticulate, 31 j-^; lateral lines f|. Yellowish, tinged with orange on the sides, with four broad olive-brown cross-bands on the upper half of the body; an interrupted dark streak on each side from above the gill-cover to the base of the tail; head speckled with brown ; an angular olive-brown band, pointing backwards, from eye to eye on the occiput; a broad blackish band from below the anterior half of the eye to the mouth; a blackish vertical bar on the prseoperculum; an oblique blackish bar, involving the opercular spot, behind the gill-cover; fins. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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