. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. SYNODONTIS. 429 back, and adipose fin; fins grey or olive, with numerous small round black spots ; fringe of maxillary barbels black. Total length 195 millim. White Nile. 1. One of the types. Goz abu Gumah. L. Loat, Esq. (C.). 24. SYNODONTIS NIGMTA. Ciiv. & Yal. Hist. Poiss. xv. p. 265, pi. ccccxli. (1840); Giintli. Cat. Fish. v. p. 214 (1864); Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxi. i. 1870, p. 585; Vaill. N. Arch. Mus. (3) viii. 1896, p. 149, & vii. pi. xiii. fig. 1; Werner,
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. SYNODONTIS. 429 back, and adipose fin; fins grey or olive, with numerous small round black spots ; fringe of maxillary barbels black. Total length 195 millim. White Nile. 1. One of the types. Goz abu Gumah. L. Loat, Esq. (C.). 24. SYNODONTIS NIGMTA. Ciiv. & Yal. Hist. Poiss. xv. p. 265, pi. ccccxli. (1840); Giintli. Cat. Fish. v. p. 214 (1864); Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxi. i. 1870, p. 585; Vaill. N. Arch. Mus. (3) viii. 1896, p. 149, & vii. pi. xiii. fig. 1; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1141; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 366, pi. lxxi. fig. 1 (1907). Hemisynodoniis niprita, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 1863, p. 55. Depth of body 3 to 3| times in total length, length of head 3 to 3£ Fig. Synodontis nigrita. times. Head a little longer than bread, rugose, granulate above from between the eyes ; snout rounded, as long as postocular part of head : eye superolateral, 4 to 5-j times in length of head, H to '2\ times in interorbital width; lips moderately developed; prsemaxillary teeth forming a short and broad band; movable mandibular teeth not more than ^ diameter of eye, 30 to 35 in number. Maxillary barbel with a broad marginal membrane in its basal third, 1 to ]§ times length of head, reaching between anterior and posterior fourth of pectoral spine ; cuter mandibular barbel about twice as long as inner, both with short,. 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 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis]
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