. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. ATOPOCHILUS. 491 (2 rays rudimentary). Pectoral spine strong, striated, strongly serrated on inner side, f length of head. Ventral nearly reaching origin of anal. Caudal peduncle 1| times as long as deep. Greyish above, with. Atopochilus savorgnani. Type, after Sauvage, I. c. a dark band between the adipose fin and the anal, and a dark blotch at the base of the caudal; fins transparent, without markings. Total length 90 millim. Upper Ogowe.—Type, in Paris Museum, examined. 2.
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. ATOPOCHILUS. 491 (2 rays rudimentary). Pectoral spine strong, striated, strongly serrated on inner side, f length of head. Ventral nearly reaching origin of anal. Caudal peduncle 1| times as long as deep. Greyish above, with. Atopochilus savorgnani. Type, after Sauvage, I. c. a dark band between the adipose fin and the anal, and a dark blotch at the base of the caudal; fins transparent, without markings. Total length 90 millim. Upper Ogowe.—Type, in Paris Museum, examined. 2. ATOPOCHILUS MACROCEPHALUS. Bouleng. Ann & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 112. Depth of body || its greatest width, 5 times in total length. Head much depressed, 1^- times as long as broad, its length 2§ times in total length, its upper surface slightly rugose; snout broadly rounded, its length 2-j times postocular part of head; nostrils nearer end of snout than eye, the diameter of which is 6-|- times in length of head and 1\ times in interorbital width; buccal cleft f length of head ; band of praemaxillary teeth interrupted in the middle, as broad as the lower lip; lateral barbel \ length of head, more than twice as long as posterior. 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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