. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. CLARIAS. 247 length of tlie fin. Ventrals much nearer end of snout than caudal. Caudal ^ length of head. Uniform blackish brown. Total length 140 millim. Lake Tanganyika ; Upper Ubanghi. Fig. 1-2. Types. 3. Ad. Clarias liocephalus. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). L. Tanganyika. Banzyville, Ubanghi. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C. Capt. Royaux (C). 17. CLARIAS BREVICEPS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 135, pi. xlviii. fig. 6 (1900), Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 258, pi. xiii. fig. 1 (1901
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. CLARIAS. 247 length of tlie fin. Ventrals much nearer end of snout than caudal. Caudal ^ length of head. Uniform blackish brown. Total length 140 millim. Lake Tanganyika ; Upper Ubanghi. Fig. 1-2. Types. 3. Ad. Clarias liocephalus. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). L. Tanganyika. Banzyville, Ubanghi. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C. Capt. Royaux (C). 17. CLARIAS BREVICEPS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 135, pi. xlviii. fig. 6 (1900), Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 258, pi. xiii. fig. 1 (1901), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 1080. Depth of body 6 to 8 times in total length, length of head 4^ to 5 times. Head 1^ times as long as broad, smooth; occipital process angular ; fontanelles small, the frontal sole-shaped and nearly j length of head, the occipital oval and partly on the occipital process ; eye very small, its diameter 3 times in length of snout, 6 times in interorbital width ; width of mouth equal to interorbital width, ^ length of head; vomerine teeth conical, forming a crescentic band which is as broad as the prijemaxillary band ; nasal barbel f length of head; maxillary barbel as long as or a little longer than head, extending to extremity of pectoral; outer mandibular barbel about L| length of inner, which measures. 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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