. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. TILAPIA. 227 from anal. Ventral reaching vent. - Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep or a little deeper than long. Scales feebly denticulate, — 2—S . 18—'^1 27-29 jqzyi', lateral lines 20ij2- Brownish above, white beneath, uniform or with 7 or 8 rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; a blackish opercular spot; two or three dark streaks across the top of the head and another, oblique, from the anterior third of the eye to the mouth ; usually a bhick spot on the chin ; s
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. TILAPIA. 227 from anal. Ventral reaching vent. - Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep or a little deeper than long. Scales feebly denticulate, — 2—S . 18—'^1 27-29 jqzyi', lateral lines 20ij2- Brownish above, white beneath, uniform or with 7 or 8 rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; a blackish opercular spot; two or three dark streaks across the top of the head and another, oblique, from the anterior third of the eye to the mouth ; usually a bhick spot on the chin ; spinous dorsal greyish with round light spots; soft dorsal yellow with oblique blackish bars ; anal yellow, blackish towards the edge ; caudal yellow with small round blackish spots. Total length 105 millira. Upper Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. l-G. Types. Lnluaburg. Rev. P. Callewaert (C). Gl. TILAPIA STORMSII. Bonlcng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, i. p. 270, pi. xxx. fig. 2 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1D04, p. 339. Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 to 3J times in total length. Head twice as long as broad ; snout rather pointed, with straight or 7m <r. TiUtj^iin utonnfiii. Type (P. Z. S. 1902). |. slightly convex upper profile, as long as broad, as long as postocular part of head, 1^ to If times diameter of eye, which is 3J (young) to 4^ times in length of head and equals interorbital width or depth of pneorbital; mouth about | width of head, extending to between nostril and eye ; teeth in 'i to 7 series, outer rather large and about 40 to 50 in upper jaw ; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part equal to diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 10-12 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIl 9; last spine longest, about | length of head; longest soft rays about h length of head. Anal III 7; tliird. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabilit
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