. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILUS. 03 23. HAPLOCIilLUS HUTEREAUI. Bouleiig. Rev. Zool. Afr. ii. 1913, p. 159. Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3j to 3^ times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, shorter than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye nearly as long as postocular part of head, about f to f interorbital width ; prseorbital not quite J diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from end of snout Fig. Ilaplocldlus hutereaiii. Type. f
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILUS. 03 23. HAPLOCIilLUS HUTEREAUI. Bouleiig. Rev. Zool. Afr. ii. 1913, p. 159. Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3j to 3^ times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, shorter than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye nearly as long as postocular part of head, about f to f interorbital width ; prseorbital not quite J diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from end of snout Fig. Ilaplocldlus hutereaiii. Type. f. or anterior border of eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest rays as long as head or a little shorter. Anal 13-15. Pectoral I to f length of head, extending beyond root of ventral; latter nearer end of snout than root of caudal. Caudal rounded, as long as head. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-24 scales in longitudinal series, ] 6 round body in front of ventrals; lateral line absent. Yellowish, the scales edged with dark brown; fins white, with four or five blackish bars or transverse series of blackish spots on the posterior half of the dorsal and anal and on the caudal. Total length 3-5 millim. Uelle Kiver, Upper Congo, and Lake Mweru.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. One o£ the types. Dungu, Uelle. M. Hutereau (O.). 24. HAPLOCHILUS LOATL Boiileng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. ilG, and Fish. Nile, p. 417, pi. Ixxix. fig. 7 (1907). Depth of body 3f to 5 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4| times. Head flat above; snout very short, shorter than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye less than 3 times in length of head, as long as postorbital part of head, 1^ times in interorbital width; preeorbital about f diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating twice as far from eye as from' root of caudal, above middle of anal ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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