Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . Mitchell, Tr. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y. i. 1815, p. machnata, Rlipp. N. Wirbelth., Fisch. pp. 80 & 84 (1835) ; Richards. Yoy. Ereb. & Terr., Fish. p. 59, pi. xxxvi. figs. 3-5 (1846) ; Schleg. Fann. Japon., Poiss. p. 241, pi. cix. fig. 2 (1850) ; Playf. & Giinth. Fish. Zanzib. p. 121, fig. (1866).Flops indims, Swains. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 292 (1839).Flops capensis, A. Smith, HI. Zool. S. Afr., Fish. pi. vii. (1840) ; Casteln. Mem. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 67 (1861).Flops purpurascens, Richards. Ichth. Chi
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . Mitchell, Tr. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y. i. 1815, p. machnata, Rlipp. N. Wirbelth., Fisch. pp. 80 & 84 (1835) ; Richards. Yoy. Ereb. & Terr., Fish. p. 59, pi. xxxvi. figs. 3-5 (1846) ; Schleg. Fann. Japon., Poiss. p. 241, pi. cix. fig. 2 (1850) ; Playf. & Giinth. Fish. Zanzib. p. 121, fig. (1866).Flops indims, Swains. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 292 (1839).Flops capensis, A. Smith, HI. Zool. S. Afr., Fish. pi. vii. (1840) ; Casteln. Mem. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 67 (1861).Flops purpurascens, Richards. Ichth. China, p. 311 (1846). Depth of body 4i to 5^ times in total length, length of head 3^^ 4times. Eye 4 to 5 times in length of head, as long as or a little shorterthan snout, equal to interorbital width; lower jaw not or but scarcely 26 ELOPID^E. projecting beyond ii])per; maxillary extending far beyond posteriorborder of eye. Branchiostegal rays 28-35. Gill-rakers not longer thangill-filaments, 14 or 15 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 22-25, Fig. 17. »55:gpijy^^^„.^^. i i^
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