. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. CYPRINODONTIDiE. lip blackish ; fins grey, edged with black, dorsal and anal with round purplish-grey spots. Total length 70 millim. Ogowe. 1-2. Types. Masoma R., flowing into L. Agemwe Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). at Umpokoya. 14. HAPLOCHILUS SEXFASCIATUS. Epiplalys sexfasciatus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 136 ; Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. Haplochilus infrafasciatus, Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 313 (1866); Steind. Notes Leyd.
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. CYPRINODONTIDiE. lip blackish ; fins grey, edged with black, dorsal and anal with round purplish-grey spots. Total length 70 millim. Ogowe. 1-2. Types. Masoma R., flowing into L. Agemwe Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). at Umpokoya. 14. HAPLOCHILUS SEXFASCIATUS. Epiplalys sexfasciatus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 136 ; Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. Haplochilus infrafasciatus, Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 313 (1866); Steind. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 76 ; Lonnb. Ofv. Forh. Stockh. 1895, p. 188. Haplochilus , Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, i. p. 27; Arnold, Woch. Aq. Terr. 1911, p. 557, fig. ; Gerlach, Bl. Aq. Terr. 1912, p. 741, fig. Lycocyprinus sexfasviatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. 146. Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 3J to 3f times. Head flat above; snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw feebly projecting; eye 3^ to 3|- times in length of head, about J interorbital width ; prseorbital about f- diameter of eye. Dorsal 10-12, originating twice as far from occiput as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest rays about Fig. ffaplochilus sexfasciatus. <J, Ogowe. § length of head in males, shorter in females. Anal 15-17. Pectoral § to â § length of head, extending a little beyond root of ventral; latter equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal as long as or a little longer than head, rounded-subcarinate. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-32 scales in longitudinal series, 20-22 round body in front of ventrals; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. Brown above, yellowish beneath, with carmine dots and usually 5 to 7 blackish vertical bars on the body, confined, except the last, to the lower part of the side; the first bar usually just behind
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