Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . eaching beyond base of ventral, which is about half as long. Caudalwith pointed lobes, scaled on more than half its extent. Caudalpeduncle 3 times as long as deep, as long as head. 78 scales in lateralline, y. in transverse series on body, j6 between dorsal and anal, 12round caudal peduncle. Brown or dark olive with yellowish bars, twoof which enclose a sort of blackish rhomb between the anterior raysof the dorsal and those of the anal, which bear a black bar ; ablack band on the pectoral and vential and on
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . eaching beyond base of ventral, which is about half as long. Caudalwith pointed lobes, scaled on more than half its extent. Caudalpeduncle 3 times as long as deep, as long as head. 78 scales in lateralline, y. in transverse series on body, j6 between dorsal and anal, 12round caudal peduncle. Brown or dark olive with yellowish bars, twoof which enclose a sort of blackish rhomb between the anterior raysof the dorsal and those of the anal, which bear a black bar ; ablack band on the pectoral and vential and on each lobe of thecaudal. Total length 140 millim. White Nile.—Type in Vienna Ad. Fashoda. L. Loat, Esq. (C). 20. GNATHONEMUS Proc. Zoo]. Soc. 1904, i. p. 198, pi. vii, fig. 2. Depth of body of times in total length, length of head 5f slightly longer than deep, with curved upper profile; snout ^length of head; chin with a globular dermal appendage ; teeth conical,3 in upper jaw, 4 in lower; eye a little shorter than snout, f interorbital Fig. Gnatlionemus ( 1004). \. width. Dorsal 33, its origin corresponding to that of anal, its lengthonce and \ in its distance from head. Anal 31, equally distant frombase of ventrals and from base of caudal. Pectoral pointed, as long ashead, once and f as long as ventral, reaching beyond base of scaled in its basal half, with pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle GNATHONEMUS. 115 4 times as long as deep, slightly longer than head. 85 scales in lateralline, Ijg in transverse series on body, |x in transverse series betweendorsal and anal, 14 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, silvery whitebeneath; dorsal and anal fins greyish brown in length 245 millim. nv Niger. 1. Type. Assay, Lower Niger. J. S. Budgett, Esq. (P.). 21. GNATHONEMUS Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 74, pi. xxxiii. fig. 5 (1890), and Poiss. , p. 101 (1901). Depth of body 3J to 3
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