Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . r Luxor. Assuan. Khartum. Shederah, White Nile. Fashoda, „ Tewfikyeh, „ Lake o£ Gondokoro. Jebba, Tipper Niger. Agberi, Lower Niger. Niger. Stanley Falls. L. Loat, Esq. (C). J. Petherick, Esq. (C).L. Loat, Esq. (C). Capt. G. F. Abadie(P.).Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C).Mr. J. T. Dalton (C).Rev. W. H. Bentley (C). 18. GNATHONEMUS MACROLEPIDOTUS. Mormynis macrolepidotus, Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 275 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 219 (18G6) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 79, pi. xv. fig. 1 (1808).Mormijro
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . r Luxor. Assuan. Khartum. Shederah, White Nile. Fashoda, „ Tewfikyeh, „ Lake o£ Gondokoro. Jebba, Tipper Niger. Agberi, Lower Niger. Niger. Stanley Falls. L. Loat, Esq. (C). J. Petherick, Esq. (C).L. Loat, Esq. (C). Capt. G. F. Abadie(P.).Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C).Mr. J. T. Dalton (C).Rev. W. H. Bentley (C). 18. GNATHONEMUS MACROLEPIDOTUS. Mormynis macrolepidotus, Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 275 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 219 (18G6) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 79, pi. xv. fig. 1 (1808).Mormijrops macrolepidotus, Marcnscn, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) vii. 18G4, no. 4, p. macrolepidotus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 804, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 93 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvii. 1905, p. 181 ; Pappenh. Mitth. Zool. Mus. Berl. iii. 1907, p. 354 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 53, pi. X. fig. 1 (1907). Depth of body 3^^ to 4 times in total length, length of head 4^^to 5 times. Head nearly as long as deep, with curved upper profile ; ri-. \ Gnathonemus , after Peters (Reise Mossamb.). ^. snout about \ length of head; chin with a globular dermal appendage;teeth conical, 3 or 5 in u)i]ior jaw, 0 in lower ; eye moderate, § to | GNATHONEMUS. 11 length of snout, i to f interorbital width. Dorsal 23-25, originatingabove 5th to 8th ray of anal, its length about 2 J times in its distance fromhead. Anal 28-32, a little nearer base of caudal than base of obtusely pointed, shorter than head, reaching base of ventral ora little beyond. Caudal scaled in basal half, with obtusely pointed peduncle 2 to 3 times as long as deep, nearly as long as scales in lateral line, \^ in transverse series on body, g;;J| intransverse series between dorsal and anal, 14 or 16 (rarely 12) roundcaudal peduncle. Silvery, sometimes with black blotches. Total length 250 millim. Reaches a length of 320 mil
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