Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . to | length of head; teeth feebly notched, 5 in upper jaw, 6 inlower; nostrils nearly equally distant from end of snout and from eye,anterior on a level with centre of latter, posterior with lower border;eye small, ^ length of snout, §-—| iuterorbital width. Dorsal 16-20, itslength -J to f its distance from head, originating above 8th to 10th ray ofanal. Anal 21-26, a little longer than dorsal, nearer base of caudal thanbase of ventral. Pectoral pointed, f length of head, If times length Fis. Marcuseni
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . to | length of head; teeth feebly notched, 5 in upper jaw, 6 inlower; nostrils nearly equally distant from end of snout and from eye,anterior on a level with centre of latter, posterior with lower border;eye small, ^ length of snout, §-—| iuterorbital width. Dorsal 16-20, itslength -J to f its distance from head, originating above 8th to 10th ray ofanal. Anal 21-26, a little longer than dorsal, nearer base of caudal thanbase of ventral. Pectoral pointed, f length of head, If times length Fis. Marcusenius Tciw/slei/ce,Type, after G-uuther (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1896). =. of ventral, not reaching base of latter. Caudal densely scaled in thebasal half, with pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 2h to 3 times as longas deep, f length of head. 55-65 scales in lateral line, j-4 in trans- 8-9 . verse series on body, 6^ in transverse series between dorsal and anal,12 round caudal peduncle. Brown. Total length 150 millim. Old Calabar to Mayombe. Old R., S. R. at Bitye, R., Spanish of Kop-Malafu,Mayombe. 1. Type. 2. Ad. 3. Ad. 4-9. Ad. & hgr. 10. Hgr. (Type of M. cabrce.) Miss Kingsley (C).G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). Major Cabra (C). 5. MARCUSENIUS SPHECODES. Mormyrops spltekodes, Sauv. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1878, p. 101, and N. Arch. Mus. (2) iii. 1880, p. 55, pi. ii. fig. sphecodes, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (G) xvii. 18%, p. .sphecodes, Bouleng. Proe. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 793. Depth of body equal
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