. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 256 CICHLID.!'. rather deeply emarginate. Caudal peduncle 1| times as iorg as deep. 4-5 23-24 Scales finely denticulate, 34-3-3 -j^; lateral lines jy^^. Pale brown above, silvery white beneatli; five dark brown cross-bars, brcjken up Pig. Tilajna rostrata. Type (P. Z. S. 1899). into large spots ; a small dark brown opercular spot ; a large dark brown spot at base of caudal ; fins white, dorsal sometimes with small round dark spots. Total length 210 mlUini. I^ake Nyassa. 1.
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 256 CICHLID.!'. rather deeply emarginate. Caudal peduncle 1| times as iorg as deep. 4-5 23-24 Scales finely denticulate, 34-3-3 -j^; lateral lines jy^^. Pale brown above, silvery white beneatli; five dark brown cross-bars, brcjken up Pig. Tilajna rostrata. Type (P. Z. S. 1899). into large spots ; a small dark brown opercular spot ; a large dark brown spot at base of caudal ; fins white, dorsal sometimes with small round dark spots. Total length 210 mlUini. I^ake Nyassa. 1. Type. L. Nyassa. Miss M. Woodward (C.) ; Miss S. C. McLanglilin (P.). 2. AJ. „ Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). S6. TILAPIA DARDENNII. Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1899, p. 92, ]^\. xx. i\g. 1, Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 150, pi. Iv. fig. 2 (1900), and Poiss. Bass. C^ongo, p. 472 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. ISoc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 342; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 1906, p. 572. Depth of body 2f to o^ times in total length, length of head 3 to 3^ times. Head 2 to 2j times as long as broad, with strongly curved uj)per profile ; snout rounded, as long as broad or a little broader than long, as long as or a little longer than postocular part of head, 1 to 1^ times as long as eye, which is 3j to 3^ times in length of head, equals or nearly equals interorbital width and exceeds least prteorbital depth ; mouth moderate, f to | width of head, extending to between nostril and eye ; teeth small, in 4. or 5 series, 00 (young) to 68 in outer series. 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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