. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . times as long as deep, \ length of head. 90-95 scales in lateral line,-j^-in transverse series on body, 20 in transverse series between dorsaland anal, 16-18 round caudal peduncle. Uniform dark brown, somewhatlighter beneath. Total length 630 millim. Upper Congo.—Type in Congo Museum, Hgr. - , Monsemlic. Rev. J. H. Weoks (P.). 40 9. MORMYROPS zanclirostris, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 18G7, p. 114, pi. ii. fig. zanclirostris, Bouleng. An
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . times as long as deep, \ length of head. 90-95 scales in lateral line,-j^-in transverse series on body, 20 in transverse series between dorsaland anal, 16-18 round caudal peduncle. Uniform dark brown, somewhatlighter beneath. Total length 630 millim. Upper Congo.—Type in Congo Museum, Hgr. - , Monsemlic. Rev. J. H. Weoks (P.). 40 9. MORMYROPS zanclirostris, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 18G7, p. 114, pi. ii. fig. zanclirostris, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 3 (1898), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. of body 6 to 7 times in total length, length of head 3^ to4 times. Head 2\ to 2f times as long as deep ; snout much produced,tubiform, nearly as long as postorbital part of head; mouth terminal,very small; teeth truncate, 14 in each jaw; eye very small, situatedin anterior half of head, its diameter | to § interocular 19-21, -| length of anal, originating 3 to 3^ times as far from Fig. Mormyrops , after Giinther (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1867). \. head as from base of caudal. Anal 34-39, originating considerablyin advance of dorsal (its 12th to 14th ray corresponding to the firstdorsal ray), and at nearly equal distance from head and base ofcaudal. Pectoral f length of head. Caudal small, densely scaled inits basal half, with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle twice as long asdeep, ^ length of head. 70-74 scales in lateral line, yttb in transverseseries on body, 14-15 in transverse series between dorsal and anal,10 or 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark brown. Total length 270 millim. Gaboon. 1 Ad., type 2. Ad. 3. Ad., Hot. , Ogowe. Miss Kingsley (C,). J?Dr. W. J. Ansorge (0.). Masoma R., Ogowe. 10. MORMYROPS Bull. Mns. Paris, 1900, p. 349 ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 63 (1901).Depth of body 9 times in total length, length of hea
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