. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. ANABAS. 67 greater part covered with scales. Caudal peduncle merely indicated. Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 28 â £; lateral lines g^" Dark brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each side of the head, passing through the eye; another, oblique, below the eye. Total length 100 millim. Yembe River, Ubanghi.âType in Congo Museum, Tervueren. Fig. Anabas oxyrjiynchus. Type (A. M. C). %. 16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. C


. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. ANABAS. 67 greater part covered with scales. Caudal peduncle merely indicated. Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 28 â £; lateral lines g^" Dark brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each side of the head, passing through the eye; another, oblique, below the eye. Total length 100 millim. Yembe River, Ubanghi.âType in Congo Museum, Tervueren. Fig. Anabas oxyrjiynchus. Type (A. M. C). %. 16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. Ctenopoma petherici (non Giinth.), Schilth. Tijdschr. Nedcrl. Dicrk. Ver. (2) iii. 1891, p. 84. Ctenopoma ocellatum, Pellegi-. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1809, p. 359. Ctenopoma acutirostre, Pellegr. t. c. p. 3G0. Ctenopoma denticulatum, Pellegr. t. c. p. 301. Anabas loeelcsii, part., Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 243, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 377 (1901). Anabas ocellatus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 53. Anabas weeksii, Steind. Denksclir. Ak. Wien, lxxxix. 1913, p. 51. Depth of body If to 2^ times in total length, length of head 2| to 3 times. Snout very pointed, as long as eye ; upper profile of head straight or concave; eye 3^ to 4 times in length of head, 1 to \\ times in interorbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior border or anterior fourth of eye ; palatine teeth present; praeorbital entire; angle of prreoperculum sometimes feebly serrated; interoperculum and sub- operculum entire or serrated; several spines above and below opercular notch. 9 to 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIII 9-12 ; spines equal from the sixth or seventh, about. 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. o


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