. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. PARA TIL APIA, 317 series, of outer series rather large, 34 to 40 in upper jaw; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part nearly equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 9 or 10 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIV-XV 10-11 ; spines increasing in length to the last, which measures a little over -J length of head; longest soft rays | length of head. Anal 111 7 ; third spine stronger but a little shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral hardly § length of head,
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. PARA TIL APIA, 317 series, of outer series rather large, 34 to 40 in upper jaw; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part nearly equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 9 or 10 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIV-XV 10-11 ; spines increasing in length to the last, which measures a little over -J length of head; longest soft rays | length of head. Anal 111 7 ; third spine stronger but a little shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral hardly § length of head, not extending to vertical of origin of anal. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Scales cycloid, 3 • 17—19 27-28 j2> lateral lines ^j^. Purplish brown above, cheek and opercle yellow, belly carmine-red; a large black spot on the operculum and another on the posterior part of the spinous dorsal, which is dark purplish ; soft dorsal carmine-red ; ventral carmine-red, edged with black. Total length 80 millim. Upper Congo. 1-2. Types. -Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. Utanda, L. Leopold II. M. P. Delliez (C).. Paratilapia macrocephala. Type (A. M. C). 3. PARATILAPIA MACROCEPHALA. Bouleng. Ann. Mns. Congo, Zool. i. p. 121, pi. xlv. fig. 4 (1890), and Poiss. Ba.«s. Congo, p. 415 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 2GG. Depth of body 2f to 3 times in total length, length of head 2J to 3 times. Head 2J to 2J times as long as broad; snout with straight upper profile, a little shorter than postocular part of head; eye 3J to 4| times in length of head, equal to or greater than interorbital width, much exceeding praeorbital depth ; mouth extending to below anterior. 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
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