Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . he lower ray adnate to a fleshy process. Vertebrae 16-J-14. A single species. 1. PANTODON BUCHHOLZI. Peters, t. c. p. 196, pi. — ; Bouleng. 1. c. ; Popta, Notes Leyd. Mus, xxiii. 1902,p. 111. Depth of body -t^ to of times in total length, length of head 4 to 4^times. Snout shorter than eye, the diameter of which is 3| times inlength of head, If times in interocnlar width; mouth very oblique,directed upwards, extending beyond posterior border of eye. Dorsal 6, 152 above last rays of anal, 3
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . he lower ray adnate to a fleshy process. Vertebrae 16-J-14. A single species. 1. PANTODON BUCHHOLZI. Peters, t. c. p. 196, pi. — ; Bouleng. 1. c. ; Popta, Notes Leyd. Mus, xxiii. 1902,p. 111. Depth of body -t^ to of times in total length, length of head 4 to 4^times. Snout shorter than eye, the diameter of which is 3| times inlength of head, If times in interocnlar width; mouth very oblique,directed upwards, extending beyond posterior border of eye. Dorsal 6, 152 above last rays of anal, 3^ to 4 times as distant from head as from caudal;third ray nearly as long as head. Anal 9-14, sometimes divided intotwo by a notch, posterior rays shortest. Pectoral f to -^ total length,formed of 8 rays, first longest and strong. First 4 ventral rays more orless produced, sometimes reaching caudal. Caudal pointed, median raysnearly twice as long as head. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-30 scales in lateral line, -£ in transverse series, 22 or 23 between occiput Fig. 122. i^~^ Pantodoti Congo. and dorsal. Olive above, jellow or silvery beneath, more or less tingedwith carmine; a few blackish dots on the body; sometimes dark bandsacross the back ; fins pink, with small, round, purplish-brown spots,forming cross-bands on the pectorals, which are dark purple on theinner side and towards the end ; dark bars across the lower jaw. Total length 95 millim. Niger, Old Calabar, Cameroon, Congo.—Type in Berlin Museum. 1. Ad. 2. Ad. 3-4. Ad. & hgr. 5. Skel. 6. One of the types. 7-8. Ad. 11. Ad. Brass, Lower , „ Old Calabar. 55 Victoria R., Cameroon. , Upper , Ubanghi. N. Burrows, Esq. (P.).J. S. Budgett, Esq. (P.).D. G. Rutherford, Esq. (C). 55 Dr. Buchholz (C);Berlin Museum (E.). Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). (^apt. Royaux (C). CLUPEA. \ 153 Fam. C. CLUPEID^. Margin of the upper jaw formed by the prsemaxillaries
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