Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . dorsaland anal, 16 round caudal peduncle. Brownish above, silvery whitebeneath. Total length 240 millim. Upper Type. Jcbba. Capt. G. F. Ahndie (P.). 25. GNATHONEMUS TAMANDUA. Mormyrus tamandua, Giintli. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G4, p. 22, pi. ii. fig. 1, and Cat. Fish. vi. p. 217 (1866).Gnathonemus tamandua, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 809, and Poi?s. Bass. Congo, p. 102 (1901).Campylomormyrus tamandva, Pap[)enh. Mittli. Zool. Mns. Berl. iii. 1907, p. 359, pi. ii. figs. 2 & 3. Depth of body 4 t
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . dorsaland anal, 16 round caudal peduncle. Brownish above, silvery whitebeneath. Total length 240 millim. Upper Type. Jcbba. Capt. G. F. Ahndie (P.). 25. GNATHONEMUS TAMANDUA. Mormyrus tamandua, Giintli. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G4, p. 22, pi. ii. fig. 1, and Cat. Fish. vi. p. 217 (1866).Gnathonemus tamandua, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 809, and Poi?s. Bass. Congo, p. 102 (1901).Campylomormyrus tamandva, Pap[)enh. Mittli. Zool. Mns. Berl. iii. 1907, p. 359, pi. ii. figs. 2 & 3. Depth of body 4 to 4-^ times in total length, length of head 4 to 4J GNATHONEMUS. 119 times. Upper profile of head descending in a strong curve; snoutmuch prolonged, tubiform, strongly compressed, curved downwards, itslength If to 2 times postocular part of head, and 4 to 5 times its leastdepth, which nearly equals diameter of eye ; latter f to f interorbitalwidth; lower jaw with a compressed dermal appendage about as longas the eye; teeth conical, 3 in upper jaw, 4 in lower. Dorsal 26-30, Fig. Gnaflionrmnst , after G iinther (P. Z. S. 180:^). ;j. originating above Gth to 8th ray of anal, its length 1|- to If times in itsdistance from head. Anal 29-34, nearer base of caudal than base ofventral. Pectoral obtusely pointed, f to f length of head, ventral -g^ to f;pectoral extending beyond base of ventral. Caudal densely scaled, withpointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 3^ times as long as deep, f to f lengthof head. 70-80 scales in lateral line, m-oi in transverse series on 14-15 19-21 body, j2:^ in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudalpeduncle. Brownish above ; a rather indistinct dark, light edged verticalband between origin of dorsal and anal. Total length 360 millim. Niger, Old Calabar, Congo, Shari. 1, Type. Niger. Assay, Lower , Upper , „Upoto,Upper Congo. 2. Ad. 3. Ad. 4. Ad. 7-8. Ad. & hgr. Mr. J. T. Dalton (C).J. S. B
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