. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. AXABAS. G greater part covered with scales. Caudal peduncle merely indicated. Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 28 f; lateral lines ^''- Dark brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each side of the head, passing through the eye ; another, oblique, below the eye. Total length 100 tnillim. Yenibe River, Ubanghi.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. Fig. Anahas oxyrJiynchus. Type (A. M. 0.). |. 16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. Cteiiopoina petherici (non Griinth.)
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. AXABAS. G greater part covered with scales. Caudal peduncle merely indicated. Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 28 f; lateral lines ^''- Dark brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each side of the head, passing through the eye ; another, oblique, below the eye. Total length 100 tnillim. Yenibe River, Ubanghi.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. Fig. Anahas oxyrJiynchus. Type (A. M. 0.). |. 16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. Cteiiopoina petherici (non Griinth.), Scliiltli. Tijdschr. Nederl. Dierk. Ver. (2) iii. 181)1, p. 84. Ctenopoma ocdlatum, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1899, p. 359. Ctenopoma acutirostre, Pellegr. t. c. p. 3(J0. Ctenopoma deuticidatum, Pellegr. t. c. p. 3G1. Anahas loeeksii, part., Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 2-13, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 377 (1901). Anahas ocellatus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. , p. 53. Anahas weeksii, Steind. Denksclir. Ak. Wien, Ixxxix. 1913, p. 51. Depth of body If to 2^ times in total length, length of head 2^ to 3 times. Snout very pointed, as long as eye ; upper profile of head straight or concave; eye 3^ to 4 times in length of head, 1 to Ij times in interorbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior border or anterior fourth of eye ; palatine teeth present; prasorbital entire ; angle of priEopercuIum sometimes feebly serrated; interoperculuin and sub- operculum entire or serrated; several spines above and below opercular notch. 0 to 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIII 9-12 ; spines equal from the sixth or seventh, about. 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, George
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