Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . Maki River, running into L. Types. Maki R. Prof. 0. Neumann (C). DISCOGNATHUS. 349 5. DISCOGNATHUS lamta (non Ham. Buch.), Blanf. Geol. Zool. Abyssin. p. 460 (1870) ; Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p. blanfordii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. p. 160, and 1903, ii. p. 330, pi. xxxi. fig. 2. Body very feebly compressed, its depth 4 to 5| times in total scarcely depressed, \\ to 1^- times as long as broad, its length4J to 4^ times in
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . Maki River, running into L. Types. Maki R. Prof. 0. Neumann (C). DISCOGNATHUS. 349 5. DISCOGNATHUS lamta (non Ham. Buch.), Blanf. Geol. Zool. Abyssin. p. 460 (1870) ; Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p. blanfordii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. p. 160, and 1903, ii. p. 330, pi. xxxi. fig. 2. Body very feebly compressed, its depth 4 to 5| times in total scarcely depressed, \\ to 1^- times as long as broad, its length4J to 4^ times in total length ; snout rounded, projecting stronglybeyond mouth ; interorbital region flat, its width \, or a little morethan \, length of head ; eye supero-lateral or nearly lateral, but notvisible from below, in middle, or anterior to middle, of length of head,its diameter 4 (young) to h\ times in length of head, 2 to 2^ times ininterorbital width ; width of mouth (with lips) about \ length of head ;upper lip well developed, feebly fringed ; lower lip surrounding a mental Fig. Discognathus B. (P. Z. S. 1903). |. disk which is broader than long; 2 barbels on each side, measuringJ to -f diameter of eye j snout of breeding males with conical hornytubercles. Dorsal HI 7, equally distant from anterior border of eyeor occiput and from caudal ; longest ray as long as or slightly shorterthan head. Anal II 5. Pectoral as long as head, not reaching ventral,which is situated below second half of dorsal. Caudal deeply emar-ginate. Caudal peduncle 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep. Scales33-38 ^rm, 3-4 between lateral line and root of ventral, 16 roundcaudal peduncle. Olive-brown to blackish above, whitish beneath jusually a few black spots at the base of the dorsal length 115 watershed of Abyssinia, Erythraea. 1-5. , types. Suru, Abyssinia. Dr. W. T. BlanEord (P.). 6. Hgr., types. „ „ W» Jesse, Esq. (P.). 350 7-15. Ad. & yg.
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