. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 112 Ventrals below base of pectorals, with a scaly basal process. Vertebrae 24 (10 + 14). Indian and Pacific Oceans; a few species in fresh waters. One species is to be included in the African fresh-water fauna*. 1. AMBASSIS COMMERSONII. Centropomus ambassis, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. p. 273 (1802). Ambassis commersonii, Guv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 176, pi. xxv. (1828); Bleek. Verh. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, p. 30 ; Giinth. Cat.
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 112 Ventrals below base of pectorals, with a scaly basal process. Vertebrae 24 (10 + 14). Indian and Pacific Oceans; a few species in fresh waters. One species is to be included in the African fresh-water fauna*. 1. AMBASSIS COMMERSONII. Centropomus ambassis, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. p. 273 (1802). Ambassis commersonii, Guv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 176, pi. xxv. (1828); Bleek. Verh. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, p. 30 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. i. p. 223 (1859); Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 10 (1868) ; Day, Fish. In J. p. 52, pi. xv. fig. 3 (1875) ; Bleek. Atl. Ichthyol. viii. p. 136, pi. Ixxiv. tig. 5 (1877) ; Pfeff. Thierw. , Fische, p. 4, fig. (1896). Ambassis macracanthus, Bleek. Verh. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, p. 30 ; Giinth. t. c. p. 227. Ambassis prvductus, Guichen. Mem. Soc. Sci. Cherbourg, xii. 1866, p. 130. Depth of body 2| to 2f times in total length, length of head 3 times. Snout convex, as long as or shorter than eye, which is 2| (young) to 3^ Ei<r. Ambassis commersonii. Type, after Cuvier and Valenciennes. times in length of head; interorbital width 3| to 3^ times in length of head; lower jaw projecting; maxillary extending to below anterior * The statement, in Playfair and Giinther's 'Fishes of Zanzibar,' p. 18, that Ambassis urolcenia, Blkr., occurs in fresh water in the Seychelles is probably a mistake, and is not repeated in Playfair's later list of the Eishes of the Seychelles (Proe. Zool. Soc. 1867). The same remark applies also to Apogon hyalosoiiia, 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
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