. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. TILAPIA. '227 from anal. Ventral reaching vent. (Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep or a little deeper than long. Scales feebly denticulate, ^' ~^^ IcmT ' Ifiteral lines ioij2- Brownish above, white beneath, uniform or with 7 or 8 rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; a blackish opercular spot; two or three dark streaks across the top of the head and another, oblique, from the anterior third of the eye to the mouth ; usually a black spot on the chin ; spinous dors
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. TILAPIA. '227 from anal. Ventral reaching vent. (Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep or a little deeper than long. Scales feebly denticulate, ^' ~^^ IcmT ' Ifiteral lines ioij2- Brownish above, white beneath, uniform or with 7 or 8 rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; a blackish opercular spot; two or three dark streaks across the top of the head and another, oblique, from the anterior third of the eye to the mouth ; usually a black spot on the chin ; spinous dorsal greyish with round light spots; soft dorsal yellow with oblique blackish bars ; anal yellow, blackish towards the edge ; caudal yellow with small round blackish spots. Total length 105 millira. Upper Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1-G. Types. Luluaburg. Rev. P. Callewaert (C). (U. TIL APIA STORMS II. Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, i. p. 270, pi. xxx. fig. 2 ; Pellegr. Mein. Soo. Zool, France, xvi. 1904, p. 339. Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 to 3| times in total length. Head twdce as long as broad ; snout rather pointed, with straight or ri<r. 149,. Tilajjiu stoniiisd. Type (P. Z. S. 1902). |. sli"-htly convex upper profile, as long as broad, as long as postocular part of head, 1^ to If times diameter of eye, which is ^ (young) to 4^ times in length of head and equals interorbital width or depth of pr^orbital; mouth about § width of head, extending to between nostril and eye ; teeth in 4 to 7 series, outer rather large and about 40 to 50 in upper jaw; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 10-12 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIl 9 ; last spine longest, about f length of head; longest soft rays about h length of bead. Anal III 7; third. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorati
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