. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. Clarias amplexicauda. Type(). f. caudal. Pectoral f length of head, its spine serrated on both sides and measuring § the length of the fin. Ventrals once and \ as distant from caudal as from end of snout. Caudal a little more than J length of head. Blackish brown above, a little lighter beneath. Total length 155 millim. Upper Ubanghi.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 31. CLARIAS THEODORA. M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 150 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 11)07, p. 1


. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. Clarias amplexicauda. Type(). f. caudal. Pectoral f length of head, its spine serrated on both sides and measuring § the length of the fin. Ventrals once and \ as distant from caudal as from end of snout. Caudal a little more than J length of head. Blackish brown above, a little lighter beneath. Total length 155 millim. Upper Ubanghi.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 31. CLARIAS THEODORA. M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 150 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 11)07, p. 1089. Depth of body 6 to 7 times in total length, length of head 4^ to 5J times. Head If or 1^ times as long as broad, smooth; occipital process angular, broader than long ; frontal fontanelle sole-shaped, twice as long as broad and \ length of head; occipital fontanelle smaller, in advance of occipital process; eye very small, 3 times in length of snout, 5 to 6 times in interorbital width, which equals width of mouth and a little less than * The other barbels are mutilated in the single known 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, Albert, 1858-1937. Codicote, Herts. [Eng : Wheldon and Wesley


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