. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. SYiXODONTIS. 429 back, and adipose fin; fins grey or olive, with numerous small round black spots; fringe of maxillary barbels black. Total length 195 millim. White Nile. 1. One of the types. Goz abu Guinah. li. Loat, Esq. (C). 24. SYNODONTIS NIGRITA. Cuv. & Val. Poiss. xv. p. 2G5, pi. ccccxh. (1840); Qiinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 214 (1864); Steind. Sitzb. AU. Wien, Ixi. i. 1870, p. 535; Vaill. N. Arch. Mus. (3) viii. 1890, p. 149, & vii. pi. xiii. fig. 1; Werner, Sit
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. SYiXODONTIS. 429 back, and adipose fin; fins grey or olive, with numerous small round black spots; fringe of maxillary barbels black. Total length 195 millim. White Nile. 1. One of the types. Goz abu Guinah. li. Loat, Esq. (C). 24. SYNODONTIS NIGRITA. Cuv. & Val. Poiss. xv. p. 2G5, pi. ccccxh. (1840); Qiinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 214 (1864); Steind. Sitzb. AU. Wien, Ixi. i. 1870, p. 535; Vaill. N. Arch. Mus. (3) viii. 1890, p. 149, & vii. pi. xiii. fig. 1; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1141; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 366, pi. Ixxi. fig. 1 (1907). Hemisynodonlis nigrita, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 1863, p. 55. Depth of body 3 to 3| times in total length, length of head 3 to 3i Fifr. Synodoniis nigrita. White Nile (F. N.). f. times. Head a little longer than bread, rugose, granulate above from between the eyes ; snout rounded, as long as postocular part of head : eye supero-lateral, 4 to b\ times in length of head, I^ to 2| times in interorbital width; lips moderately developed; prsemaxillary teeth forming a short and broad band; movable mandibular teeth not more than ^ diameter of eye, 30 to 35 in number. Maxillary barbel with a broad marginal membrane in its basal third, 1 to If times length of head, reaching between anterior and posterior fourth of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel about twice as long as innciv, both with shorty. 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, Albert, 1858-1937. Codicote, Herts. [Eng : Wheldon and Wesley
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