. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. GHILOGLAXIS. 481 between eye and posterior nostril; prsemaxillary teeth in two large contiguous groups, forming 4 or 5 transverse series; a group of 7 to 9 mandibular teeth; maxillary barbel J length of head, longer than the lower labials. Dorsal I 5; spine not serrated, not quite \ length of head. Adipose fin low, its base about f its distance from rayed dorsal. Anal III 6-7. Pectoral spine not serrated, f length of head. Ventral extending to a little beyond origin of anal. Cau
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. GHILOGLAXIS. 481 between eye and posterior nostril; prsemaxillary teeth in two large contiguous groups, forming 4 or 5 transverse series; a group of 7 to 9 mandibular teeth; maxillary barbel J length of head, longer than the lower labials. Dorsal I 5; spine not serrated, not quite \ length of head. Adipose fin low, its base about f its distance from rayed dorsal. Anal III 6-7. Pectoral spine not serrated, f length of head. Ventral extending to a little beyond origin of anal. Caudal peduncle 2^ times as long as deep. Dark brown above and on the sides, with three yellowish bars, the first in front of the dorsal fin, the second above the ventral, the third on the caudal peduncle ; lower parts white. Total length 40 millim. Modjo River (Webi Shebeli System), Southern Ethiopia. 1. One of the types. Modjo R. Prof. 0. Neumann and Baron C. von Erlanger (C). 3. CHILOGLANIS NEUMANNI, sp. n. Cldloglants deckenii (non Peters), Hilgend. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, p. 411. Body cylindrical in front, compressed behind, its depth 4 to 4^ times in total length. Head depressed, IJ to IJ times as long as broad, its length 3 to 3J times in total length; eye directed upwards, in second half of head, 6 to 7 times in length of head, nearly twice in interorbital width, which is greater than the distance between eye and posterior Fig. Chiloglanis neumcmni. Type. |. nostril ; two widely separated oval groups of prtemaxiJlary teeth, forming o or 4 transvert^e series; two series of mandibular teeth, 6 to 8 in each ; maxillary barbel about ^ length of head, a little longer than outer lower labial. Dorsal I 5 ; spine not serrated, f to | length of head. Adipose. 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 origina
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