. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILTJS. 7 i front of ventrals; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. Yellowish brown, with two more or less distinct brown bands along each side, the upper extending from above the gill-cover to the caudal peduncle, the lower from the eye to the caudal; breeding male brilliantly coloured with red, purple, and blue; fins whitish, yellowish, or greyish, un- spotted or (male) with round red or orange spots ou the caudal, the. HaplocJiih
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. HAPLOCHILTJS. 7 i front of ventrals; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. Yellowish brown, with two more or less distinct brown bands along each side, the upper extending from above the gill-cover to the caudal peduncle, the lower from the eye to the caudal; breeding male brilliantly coloured with red, purple, and blue; fins whitish, yellowish, or greyish, un- spotted or (male) with round red or orange spots ou the caudal, the. HaplocJiihts bifasciatus. Mongalk (E. N.). f. lower edge of which may be blackish ; anal and ventrals also edged with blackish in the male. Total length 45 millim. White Nile, Bahr-el-Seraf, and Bahr-el-Gebel.—Types in Vienna Museum. 1-3. Ad. Lake No. H. H. King, Esq. (P.). 4. Ad. Mongalla, near Gondokoro. Dr. F. Werner (P.). 41. HAPLOCHILTJS CHEVALIERI. Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1904, p. 222. Depth of body 4 to ij times in total length, length of head 3 J times. Head flat above; snout as long as or a little longer than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye 3 times in length of head, 1J times in interorbital width. Dorsal 7-8, originating 3 times as far from anterior border of eye as from root of caudal, above antepenulti- mate ray of anal. Anal 13-14. Pectoral § length of head, reaching base of ventral. Caudal pointed, median ray produced, longer than head. Caudal peduncle at least as deep as long. 27-28 scales in longitudinal series; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. Olive above, yellow on the sides and below; a dark line along the lower part of the sides and of the caudal peduncle ; each scale on the sides with a carmine spot; jaws edged with carmine; fins yellow, dorsal, anal, and caudal finely dotted with carmine. Total length 48 millim. Congo (Stanley Pool).—Types in Paris Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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