. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. 32 ( licad. Ventral with a broad basal membrane, terminating at a great, distance from vent. Candal rounded, shorter than head. Caudal peduncle If to 1| times as long as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 61-70 in longitudinal series, 14-16 in transverse series between dorsal and anal. Yellow, with small crimson or purplish-brown spots and dots, some of which may form a regular lateral series, or be confluent into cross-bars on the back, or form two oblique series or lines directed forwards from the
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. 32 ( licad. Ventral with a broad basal membrane, terminating at a great, distance from vent. Candal rounded, shorter than head. Caudal peduncle If to 1| times as long as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 61-70 in longitudinal series, 14-16 in transverse series between dorsal and anal. Yellow, with small crimson or purplish-brown spots and dots, some of which may form a regular lateral series, or be confluent into cross-bars on the back, or form two oblique series or lines directed forwards from the eye to the mouth ; dorsal and caudal spotted with crimson or jjurplish brown ; [icctoral sometimes with crimson cross-bars. Total length 15-j millim. Fresh waters of ^Vest Africa, from Sierra Leone to Angola.—Types in Berlin Museum. V\g. Goliius (juiiicenHs. Cliiloanso. Ad. & ligr. 4-5. Ad. (5-13. Hgr. & yg. 11-15. Yg. ID. Hgr. 17-20. Hgr. 21-30. Hgr. & yg. 3l-:}2. Hgr. 33-3-1. Ad. 3r)-37. Ad. & ligr. N. Slierbo district. Sierra Leone. Tmiio K., Gold Coast. Agberi, Lower Niger. Abo, ,. Assay, „ Benito Spanish Guinea. Kondo-Koiulo, Ogowe. Lambarene, „ Cliiloango Town. Bengo H. at QuiCangondo, An^ioia. N. AV. Thomas Esq. (P.). Dr. H. (i. F. Spurreli (P.). Dr. AV. J. Ansorgc ((".). G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). jMiss Kingsley (C). Dr. W. .]. Ansorge (('.). 12. GOBIUS SAMBERAXEXSIS. Bleek. Areli. Noerl. ii. 18t;7, \k 417, and IVi^s. Madag. p. 57, id. xix. fig. 2 (1875); Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 355, i>l. xxxix. fig. 5 (l-SUl). ?Gol>iiis cenjeri, Bleek. II. ec. pp. 4IS. 58. \n. xi.\. fig. 1. liodv cvlindrical; depth of body -3 to nearly G times in total length,. 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 the original Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937; British Museum (Natur
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