Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . ittle shorter than head. Anal III 20. Pectorala little shorter than head, not reaching ventral. Caudal deeply peduncle as long as deep. Scales with radiating canals, 36 ^,IJ between lateral line and root of ventral. Uniform silvery ; caudaldark-edged. Total length 160 millim. Kingani River, German East Africa.—Described from the typespecimen in the Berlin Museum. 200 CIIAEACIXID.^. 6. ALESTES SADLERI. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 190G, p. 435 ; Steind. Ann. Hofinus. Wien,xxi. 1906,
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . ittle shorter than head. Anal III 20. Pectorala little shorter than head, not reaching ventral. Caudal deeply peduncle as long as deep. Scales with radiating canals, 36 ^,IJ between lateral line and root of ventral. Uniform silvery ; caudaldark-edged. Total length 160 millim. Kingani River, German East Africa.—Described from the typespecimen in the Berlin Museum. 200 CIIAEACIXID.^. 6. ALESTES SADLERI. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 190G, p. 435 ; Steind. Ann. Hofinus. Wien,xxi. 1906, p. 151 ; Bonleng. Fish. Nile, p. 121, fig. (1907). Deptli of body 3 J to 3^ times in total length, length of head 4 timesor a little less. Head twice as long as broad, slightly longer than deep ;snout a little shorter than eye, which is lateral and 3 to 3^ times inlength of head ; adipose eyelid feebly developed ; interorbital regionconvex, its width 2J times in length of head; 16 teeth (|) in upper jaw,10 {^) in lower; lower border of second suborbital as long as eye. Fiir. AJcstes (F. N.). Gill-rakers long and slender, 17-18 on lower part of anterior II 8, just behind vertical of base of ventrals, equally distant fromocciput and from caudal, longest ray as long as or a little shorter thanhead. Anal III 16-17. Pectoral as long as head, not reaching deeply forked, lobes obtusely pointed. Caudal peduncle barely1^ times as long as deep. Scales with radiating and arborescent oranastomosing canals, 33 .^, 2 between lateral line and root of above, silvery white below; a more or less distinct darklateral band; a black blotch on caudal peduncle, extending on middlerays of caudal fin. Total length 94 millim. ] iake Types. Entebbe. Mr. E. Degen (C). ALESTES. 201 7. ALESTES Bull, l^fus. Piiris, IDOl, p. 329. Depth of body a little less than 3 times in total length, length of head4 times. Hea
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