. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. ir. SEREAmDJs. Ventrals below base of pectorals, with a scaly basal process, ^evtebrse 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 amhassls, Lacep. Poiss. iv. p. 273 (1802). Amhassis commersonii, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 17G, pi. xxv. (1828); Bleek. Verb. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, p. 30; Giintli. Cat. Fish. i. p. 223 (1859); Peters,
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. ir. SEREAmDJs. Ventrals below base of pectorals, with a scaly basal process, ^evtebrse 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 amhassls, Lacep. Poiss. iv. p. 273 (1802). Amhassis commersonii, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 17G, pi. xxv. (1828); Bleek. Verb. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, p. 30; Giintli. Cat. Fish. i. p. 223 (1859); Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 10 (18G8) ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 52, pi. xv. fig. 3 (1875) ; Bleek. AtL Ichthyol. viii. p. 13G, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 5 (1877) ; Pfelf. Thiervv. , Fische, p. 4, fig. (189G). Amhassis macracanthus, Bleek. Verh. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, p. 30 ; Giuith. t. c. p. 227. Amhassis productiis, Guiclien. Mein. Soc. Sci. Cherbourg, xii. 1866, p. 130. Depth of body 2^ to 2| times in total length, length of head 3 times. Snout convex, as long as or shorter than eye, which is 2^ (young) to 3^. Amhassis 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 'Pishes of Zanzibar,' p. 18, that Amhassis vroUenia. Blkr., occurs in fresh water in the Seychelles is probably a mistake, and is not repeated in Playfuir's later list of the Pishes of the Seychelles (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867). The same remark applies also to AiM<joti hi/alosoma, 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
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