. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. ASPROTILAPIA. 279 caudal region ; scales ctenoid ; two incomplete lateral lines. Teeth small, with long slender shafts and expanded tricuspid crowns, in two series in both jaws. Mouth inferior, transverse ; greater part of maxillary bone concealed under the prseorbital. Dorsal with 14 spines, anal with 3. Parietal and occipital crests moderately strong, extending to between the orbits. Vertebrae 35 (16 + 19). Lake Tanganyika. Connected with Tila
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. ASPROTILAPIA. 279 caudal region ; scales ctenoid ; two incomplete lateral lines. Teeth small, with long slender shafts and expanded tricuspid crowns, in two series in both jaws. Mouth inferior, transverse ; greater part of maxillary bone concealed under the prseorbital. Dorsal with 14 spines, anal with 3. Parietal and occipital crests moderately strong, extending to between the orbits. Vertebrae 35 (16 + 19). Lake Tanganyika. Connected with Tilapia through T. hoops. 1. ASPROTILAPIA LEPTURA. Bouleng. 11. cc, Tr. pi. xx. fig. 2 ; Pellegr. t. c. p. 354. Depth of body 5 times in total length, length of head 3| to 1 times. Head twice as long as broad; snout as long as broad, subconical, strongly projecting beyond the mouth, ^ length of head; eye very Fig. 100. Asprotilapia lepiura. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1901). f. large, as long as snout and nearly twice interorbital width, 2f to 2s- times in length of head ; width of mouth f that of head ; 36 to 40 teeth in outer row of upper jaw; 3 series of small scales on the cheek. Gill-rakers very short, tubercle-like, 15 or 16 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIV 14 ; spines slender and subequal, f length of head ; soft rays a little longer. Anal III 8; third spine nearly as long as dorsals. Pectoral a little shorter than head. Ventral reaching vent. Caudal deeply emarginate, crescentic. Caudal peduncle 3 times as 2 • 27 long as deep. Scales strongly denticulate, 38 ^; lateral lines H5. Brown, darker on the snout and vertex; a blackish opercular spot; fins greyish. Total length 110 millim. Lake Tanganyika. 1. Type. Msambu. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 2. Ad. L. Tanganyika. „ 3. 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
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