. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 372 CICHLIDJL 51. PARATILAPIA LEPTOSOMA. Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 14, pi. iii. fig. 4, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 427 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 271. Depth of body 4 to \.\ times in total length, length of head 3 to 3J times. Head 1\ to 1\ times as long as broad, with straight or slightly concave upper profile; snout obtusely pointed, as long as broad, shorter than postocular part of head, as long as or a
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 372 CICHLIDJL 51. PARATILAPIA LEPTOSOMA. Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 14, pi. iii. fig. 4, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 427 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 271. Depth of body 4 to \.\ times in total length, length of head 3 to 3J times. Head 1\ to 1\ times as long as broad, with straight or slightly concave upper profile; snout obtusely pointed, as long as broad, shorter than postocular part of head, as long as or a little longer than eye, which is Z\ to 3§ times in length of head, equals interorbital width, and much exceeds prseorbital depth ; mouth very protractile, prsemaxillary processes very long and extending to between orbits; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye, or not quite so far ; teeth small, in 3 series, about 60 in outer series of upper jaw; 2 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part about h diameter Fig. Paratilapia leptosoma. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). £. of eye. Gill-rakers long and closely set, about 20 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XII-XIV 14-16 ; spines increasing in length to the last, which measures f length of head and nearly equals longest soft rays. Anal III 10-12; third spine a little shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral f to f length of head, reaching or nearly reaching vertical of origin of anal. Ventral reaching origin of anal. Caudal deeply notched. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales rather strongly denticulate, 39-42 ^yd; lateral lines j^IF- Brown above, lighter beneath; dorsal and anal with or without brown longitudinal streaks; caudal often spotted with brown or black at the base. Total length 92 millim. Lake Tanganyika. 1-2. Types. Mbete. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 3. Type. Kinyamkolo. „ 4-6. Ad. Msambu. „ 7. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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