. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. ANABAS. CI Pectoral as loiij:: as head. Ventral produced into a iilamcnt, reaching tilth or sixth anal spine. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle merely in- dicated, kjcales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 21-'2S j,; lateral lines ^^i\'- lU'ovvnish, with G or 7 regular dark hars with wavy edges, wider than the interspaces; spinous dorsal and anal edged with blackish, the former with several oblique daik streaks ; outer halt of ventrals black. Total leuirth 79 millini. Congo. 1-:!. Tvpcs. 4. Monsenilic. U|&g
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. ANABAS. CI Pectoral as loiij:: as head. Ventral produced into a iilamcnt, reaching tilth or sixth anal spine. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle merely in- dicated, kjcales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 21-'2S j,; lateral lines ^^i\'- lU'ovvnish, with G or 7 regular dark hars with wavy edges, wider than the interspaces; spinous dorsal and anal edged with blackish, the former with several oblique daik streaks ; outer halt of ventrals black. Total leuirth 79 millini. Congo. 1-:!. Tvpcs. 4. Monsenilic. U|>i'cr ('oiigo. ]5oiii:i. ].(i\v('r ('onyo. J. II. Weeks (P.). ). Paul ArnoM (P.). Vhr. ' * -> / y y sZ^-f" AiiuIkih pctlicrlel. Type (F. N.). |. 11. l'l']THEUICr. Cleuopoma pelhcric!, jKirt., Giiiitli. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (;{) xiii. 1864, p. 211, xx. ], p. 110, ami Petheriek's Trav. ii. p. l'()8, pl. i. fig. A (). Anabas jyetherici, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. X. H. (7) iii. 1891), p. 21i), and Fish. Nile. p. 442, pl. Ixxxiii. fig. 1 (iyu7) ; Pellegr. Poiss. Bass. Tcluul, p. 120, fig.(iyil). Depth of body 2| to 2^ times in total length, length of head 2§ to 3 times. Snout rounded, as long as or a little sliorter than eye, which is 4 to 4| times in length of head and about ]^ times in inter- orbital width; niaxillary extending to below anterior third of eye; palatine teeth present ; praH)rbital entire ; a few small serra; may be present at the angle of the pneopercuhun ; iuteroperculum and sub- opercuhun finely terrated ; operculum A\ith two groups of strong 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 Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937; British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology. Lond.
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