. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. Paratilapia pfeffen. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). Olive above, silvery white beneath, with 3-4 °l-°2 32-33 grjQ ; lateral lines jgq^. seven dark cross-bands; vertical fins greyish brown, spinous dorsal darker towards the edge. Total length 76 millim. Lake Tanganyika. 1. Type. Kinyamkolo. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 2-3. Ad. Sumbu. Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C.). 9. PARATILAPIA DEMEUSII. Boulcng. Ann. Mns. Congo, Zool. i. p. 120, pi. xlv. fig. 3 (1899), and P
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. Paratilapia pfeffen. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). Olive above, silvery white beneath, with 3-4 °l-°2 32-33 grjQ ; lateral lines jgq^. seven dark cross-bands; vertical fins greyish brown, spinous dorsal darker towards the edge. Total length 76 millim. Lake Tanganyika. 1. Type. Kinyamkolo. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 2-3. Ad. Sumbu. Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C.). 9. PARATILAPIA DEMEUSII. Boulcng. Ann. Mns. Congo, Zool. i. p. 120, pi. xlv. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 416 (1901); Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 262. Depth of body slightly greater than length of head, which is 3 times in total length. Head twice as long as broad, frontal region humped; snout rounded, with straight upper profile, as long as broad, as long as postocular part of head; eye 3| times in length of head, equal to interorbital width, exceeding prasorbital depth; mouth extending to below anterior fourth of eye; teeth small, in 3 series, about 60 in outer series of upper jaw ; 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part equal to diameter of eye Gill-rakers short, 9 on lower part of anterior. 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, George Albert, 1858-1937. London : Printed by order of the Trustees : Sold by Longmans & Co. , B. Quaritch, Dulau & Co. , and at the British Museum (Natural History)
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