. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. ELEOTEIS. 11 Eleotris Initis, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Fish. p. 19G (1850) ; Giintli. Cat. Fish. iii. p. IIG (1861) ; Playf. & Giinth. Fish. Zanzib. p. 73 (1860); Day, Fish. Ind. p. 315, pi. Ixvii. fig. 3 (1876) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixxxii. i. 1881, p. 241. FJeoUis melanopterus, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. iii. 1852, p. 706. Biitis melanopterus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. 18G5, p. 150. Butis hittis, Bleek. Versl. Ak. Anasterd. (2) xi. 1877, p. 62. Eleotris
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. ELEOTEIS. 11 Eleotris Initis, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Fish. p. 19G (1850) ; Giintli. Cat. Fish. iii. p. IIG (1861) ; Playf. & Giinth. Fish. Zanzib. p. 73 (1860); Day, Fish. Ind. p. 315, pi. Ixvii. fig. 3 (1876) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixxxii. i. 1881, p. 241. FJeoUis melanopterus, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. iii. 1852, p. 706. Biitis melanopterus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. 18G5, p. 150. Butis hittis, Bleek. Versl. Ak. Anasterd. (2) xi. 1877, p. 62. Eleotris hutls, part., Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 380 (1891). Body strongly compressed, its depth 4| to 5 times in total length, length of head 2f to 3 times. Head much depressed, flat above, broader than deep, nearly twice as long as broad, nearly entirely scaly, with finely serrated ridges above; a groove on each side behind the eye ; snout broad, rounded, \\ (young) to 2 times as long as eye, which Fig. Eleotris bntls. India, after Day (ojj. cit.). |. is 5 to C^ times in length of head and 1 to 1§ times in interorbital width ; lower jaw projecting; maxillary extending to below anterior third or centre of eye; no canine teeth; no prijeopercular spine. Dorsals VI, I 8, rather widely separated from each other, longest branched rays 2^ to § length of head. Anal I 8, its origin slightly behind that of dorsal. Pectoral f to f length of head, longer than ventral. Caudal rounded, shorter than head. Caudal peduncle If to 2j times as long as deep. Scales ciliated, 29-32 in longitudinal series, 10-11 between dorsal and anal. Brown, fins with small dark and light spots; anal with a light edge; a large black spot, between two light ones, at the base of the pectoral. Total length 135 millim. East Africa to Malay Archipelago *. 1. Ad. Johanna, Comoro Ids. Sir L. Playfair (P.). * In this, as in other species of wide distribution, only Afiicaii specimens are Please note that these i
Size: 2822px × 886px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisher, booksubjectfishes
