. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 66 CTPEINODONTIDJi. often with a fine blackish lateral line ; dorsal and caudal colourless, the latter edged with red above and beneath in the male; other fins yellow. Total length 33 millim. Egypt. 1-8. Types. Near Lake Marcotis. d H. Schoeller, Esq. (P.). 9-48, 49-58. Ad. Ghet-el-Nassara, L. IMcn- L. Loat, Esq. (C). & ligr. zaleli. 59. Ad. Birket Karun, Faynm. Dr. ^Y. A. Ouunington and Dr. C. L. Boulenger (P.). 27. HAPLOCHILUS MOERUENSIS. Buuleng. Rev. Zool. Afr. iii. 1
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 66 CTPEINODONTIDJi. often with a fine blackish lateral line ; dorsal and caudal colourless, the latter edged with red above and beneath in the male; other fins yellow. Total length 33 millim. Egypt. 1-8. Types. Near Lake Marcotis. d H. Schoeller, Esq. (P.). 9-48, 49-58. Ad. Ghet-el-Nassara, L. IMcn- L. Loat, Esq. (C). & ligr. zaleli. 59. Ad. Birket Karun, Faynm. Dr. ^Y. A. Ouunington and Dr. C. L. Boulenger (P.). 27. HAPLOCHILUS MOERUENSIS. Buuleng. Rev. Zool. Afr. iii. 191J, p. 447. Depth of body 4-^ to 41 times in total length, length of head 3| to 3| times. Head flat above ; snout very short, shorter than eye ; mouth Fig. IlajihcJiilus moeruemis. Type. X 1|. directed upwards, lower jaw projecting ; eye 2J to 2f times in length of head, as long as postorbital part of head, about 1^ times in interorbital width; preeorbital about \ diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating about \h times as far from eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest ray about J length of head. Anal 14-16. Pectoral about f length of head, extending to base of ventral; latter small, much nearer end of snout than root of caudal. Caudal rounded, a little longer than head. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. 26-28 scales in longitudinal series, 16 round body in front of ventrals; no lateral-line pits. Yellowish, top of head and back, and borders of the scales speckled with dark brown; fins whitish. Total length 34 millim. Lake jVIweru.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1-G. Types. L. Mweru at Kiliig. Dr. L. Stappers (f!.). 7-11. Types, L. Mweru at 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, 1
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