Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . , p. 329. Depth of body a little less than 3 times in total length, length of head4 times. Head a little longer than deep ; snout shorter than eye, whichis 2| times in length of head ; adipose eyelid feebly developed ; inter-orbital width a little greater than diameter of eye ; maxillary hardlyreaching to below anterior border of eye; 14 teeth (g) in upper jaw,10 {,-,) in lower. Dorsal II 8, originating above base of ventrals, atequal distance from end of snout and from caudal. Anal II nea
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . , p. 329. Depth of body a little less than 3 times in total length, length of head4 times. Head a little longer than deep ; snout shorter than eye, whichis 2| times in length of head ; adipose eyelid feebly developed ; inter-orbital width a little greater than diameter of eye ; maxillary hardlyreaching to below anterior border of eye; 14 teeth (g) in upper jaw,10 {,-,) in lower. Dorsal II 8, originating above base of ventrals, atequal distance from end of snout and from caudal. Anal II nearly reaching base of ventral. Caudal forked. Scales 32 JJ,2 between lateral line and root of ventral. Silvery, back bluish. Total length 105 millim. French Congo.—Types in Paris Museum. 8. ALESTES Proc. ZjoI. Soc. 1903, i. p. 22, pi. i. fig. 1. Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 4 times. Headtwice as long as broad, as long as deep; snout shorter than eye ; latter2J to 2f times in length of head; adipose eyelid indistinct; interorbital FiL^ Alestes (P. Z. 8. 1903). i. width J length of head ; maxillary not extending quite to below anteriorborder of eye; 14 teeth Q) in upper jaw, 10 (I) in lower; length oflower border of second suborbital less than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers moderately elongate, 12-13 on lower part of anterior II 8, above base of ventrals, originating a little nearer end of 202 snout than caudal, middle branched rays much produced (1^ to If timesas long as head) in males. Anal III 19-21. Pectoral shorter thanhead, not reaching ventral ; latter produced into a long filament inmales. Caudal forked. Caudal peduncle a little longer than with radiating and arborescent or anastomosing canals, 33-35 .^,2 between lateral line and ventral. Silvery; a large black spot on thecaudal peduncle and on the median rays of the caudal; latter yellow,blackish at the end ; dorsal
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