Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . imes as long asdeep, as long as head. 42-43 scales in lateral line, j^ in transverse 7—Pi series on body, ^ g in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 8 roundcaudal peduncle. Brown, darker in front; a dark brown vertical bandbetween origin of dorsal and origin of anal; anterior two-thirds ofcaudal peduncle dark brown. Total length 100 millim. Congo (Lake Leopold 11. and Alinia River).—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. i2 116 22. GNATHONEMUS USSHERI. Mormijrus usslieri, Giinth. Ann. & Mag.
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) .. . imes as long asdeep, as long as head. 42-43 scales in lateral line, j^ in transverse 7—Pi series on body, ^ g in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 8 roundcaudal peduncle. Brown, darker in front; a dark brown vertical bandbetween origin of dorsal and origin of anal; anterior two-thirds ofcaudal peduncle dark brown. Total length 100 millim. Congo (Lake Leopold 11. and Alinia River).—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. i2 116 22. GNATHONEMUS USSHERI. Mormijrus usslieri, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, p. 116 ; Steind. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. ussheri, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 808. Depth of body oj times in total length, length of head 4f a little longer than deep, with curved upper profile; snouty length of head; a globular mental swelling; teeth notched, 5 inupper jaw, 6 in lower; eye moderate, f length of snout or interorbitalwidth. Dorsal 27-28, originating very slightly in advance of anal, its Fiff. 95. .^^^. Gnatlionemus vssJicri. Type. length a little less than twice in its distance from head. Anal 30-32,equally distant from base of ventral and from base of caudal. Pectoralpointed, as long as head, twice as long as ventral, extending beyondbase of latter. Caudal scaled in its anterior half, with pointed peduncle twice as long as deep, slightly shorter than scales in lateral line, ^5 ^^ transverse series on body, g intransverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudal Total length 170 millim. Gold Coast, Liberia. 1. Type. Bossumprah R., Gold Coast. 2. Hgr. E. Offin, Gold Coast. H. T. Usslicr, Esq. (C).R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C), GNATHONEMUS. ^ 117 23. aNATHONEMUS GRESHOFFl. Mormyrus greslioffii, Schilthuis, TijJschr. Nederl. Dierk. Ver. (2) iii. 1891, p. 90, pi. vi. fio-. greshojjl, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Sue. 1898, p. 809, anJ Poiss. Bass. Cong
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