. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 448 :. peduncle longer than deep. Brown, covered with small round dark spots. Total leno^th 600 millim. Niger. 1. Type, stuffed. Niger. Mr. J. T. Dalton (C). The following specimens are referred provisionally and with doubt to this species ;— 2-4. Yo-. Ognn R. at Aro, Lagos. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 38. SYNODONTIS LONGIROSTRIS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 44, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1902). Depth of body 4| times in total length, head 3 times. Head 1| times as long as
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 448 :. peduncle longer than deep. Brown, covered with small round dark spots. Total leno^th 600 millim. Niger. 1. Type, stuffed. Niger. Mr. J. T. Dalton (C). The following specimens are referred provisionally and with doubt to this species ;— 2-4. Yo-. Ognn R. at Aro, Lagos. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 38. SYNODONTIS LONGIROSTRIS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 44, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1902). Depth of body 4| times in total length, head 3 times. Head 1| times as long as broad, rugose above from between the eyes ; snout obtusely pointed, twice as long as postocular part of head ; eye supero-lateral, 5J times in length of head, If times in interorbital width; lips rather Fig. 330,. Syiiodontis longirostrls. Type (A. M. C). |. strongly developed ; praemaxillary teeth forming a short, broad band ; movable mandibular teeth about ^ diameter of eye, 24 in number. Maxillary barbel not margined, i length of head, barely reaching root of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel not quite twice as long as. 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, Albert, 1858-1937. Codicote, Herts. [Eng : Wheldon and Wesley
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