. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 442 SILURIDiE. width ; lips much developed ; movable mandibular teeth short, 15 in number. Maxillary barbel not margined, reaching base of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel with 3, outer with 5 or 6 simple branches. Gill-opening not extending downwards beyond root of pectoral spine. Occipito-nuchal shield feebly rugose. Humeral process much longer than broad, not keeled, sharply pointed, not extending quite so far back as occipito-nuchal shield. Dorsal I 7 ; spine J lengt
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 442 SILURIDiE. width ; lips much developed ; movable mandibular teeth short, 15 in number. Maxillary barbel not margined, reaching base of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel with 3, outer with 5 or 6 simple branches. Gill-opening not extending downwards beyond root of pectoral spine. Occipito-nuchal shield feebly rugose. Humeral process much longer than broad, not keeled, sharply pointed, not extending quite so far back as occipito-nuchal shield. Dorsal I 7 ; spine J length of head, smooth in front. Adipose dorsal 3 times as long as its distance from rayed Fig. Synodontis conrtcti. Typo, after Pellegrin (I. c). |. dorsal. Anal IV 9, rounded. Pectoral spine stronger and longer than dorsal, not reaching ventral, serrated on both sides. Caudal moderately forked. Greyish, with very numerous black dots on the head and with larger round black spots on the body and fins, those on the sides of the body largest, as large as the eye. Total length 105 millim. Shari River.—Type in Paris Miiseiun. 34. SYNODONTIS PARDATJS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) ii. 1908, p. 'AO. Depth of body 4^ to 4f times in total length, length of head 3^ to 3J times. Head 1^ times as long as broad, granulate above; snout obtusely pointed, 1J to 1| times as long as postocular part of head; eye supero-lateral, 4J to 5J times in length of head, If to 2^ times in inter- orbital width; lips moderately developed ; praemaxillary teeth forming a short and broad band ; movable mandibular teeth about J diameter of eye, 15 to 20 in number. Maxillary barbel feebly margined at base, as long as or slightly shorter than head, extending to anterior fourth or third of pectoral spine ; mandibular barbels with short tubercular. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these i
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