. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. PELM^TOCHEOMIS. 401 Dorsal XVI-XVII 8-9 ; spines gradually increasing in length to the last, which measures 3 to f length of head ; longest soft rays shorter than head. Anal III 6-7 ; third spine nearly -^ length of head. Pec- toral f to f length of head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching vent or anal. Caudal rounded-subacuminate. Caudal peduncle a little 2 • IS—^0 deeper than long. Scales cycloid, 27-29 g; lateral lines -3^-. Olive abo
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. PELM^TOCHEOMIS. 401 Dorsal XVI-XVII 8-9 ; spines gradually increasing in length to the last, which measures 3 to f length of head ; longest soft rays shorter than head. Anal III 6-7 ; third spine nearly -^ length of head. Pec- toral f to f length of head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching vent or anal. Caudal rounded-subacuminate. Caudal peduncle a little 2 • IS—^0 deeper than long. Scales cycloid, 27-29 g; lateral lines -3^-. Olive above, whitish beneath; a blackish opercular spot; sometimes an ill- defined dark lateral stripe ; soft dorsal often with a round black spot behind the last spine; caudal sometimes with two black, light-edged ocellar spots above; outer edge of ventrals blackish. Total length 65 millim. South Cameroon. 1-11. Types. Kribi R. G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 12. Skel. Fig. l'ehnatoclutjiiiLs kribensts. Type. 17. PELMATOCHEOMIS T^ENIATUS. Bouleng. Froc. Zool. Soc. 1901, i. p. 10, pi. iv. fig. 3 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 283. Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3^ times. Head If to If times as long as broad; snout rounded, with convex upper profile, broader than long, as long as the eye, which is 3^ times in length of head, nearly equals interorbital width, and exceeds prse- orbital depth; mouth moderate, extending slightly beyond vertical of anterior border of eye; teeth small, in 2 or 3 series, about 60 in outer series of upper jaw ; 2 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part much less than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 11 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVII-XVIII 7-S ; spines gradually increasing in length to the last, which measures \ length of head; longest soft rays produced into filaments, as long as head. Anal III 7 ; third spine as vol. in. 2 D. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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