. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 504 SILUIUD^. 5. PHRACTUHA LONGICAUDA. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 439. Depth of body 14 times in total length, length of head 6| times. Head 1^ as long as broad, the slightly rugose skull covered with very thin skin; snout half length of head, pointed, projecting a little beyond mouth; space between the two nostrils at nearly equal distance from end of snout and from eye; eye supero-lateral, its diameter 5^ times in length of head, 1^ in interocular width;
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 504 SILUIUD^. 5. PHRACTUHA LONGICAUDA. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 439. Depth of body 14 times in total length, length of head 6| times. Head 1^ as long as broad, the slightly rugose skull covered with very thin skin; snout half length of head, pointed, projecting a little beyond mouth; space between the two nostrils at nearly equal distance from end of snout and from eye; eye supero-lateral, its diameter 5^ times in length of head, 1^ in interocular width; maxillary and outer man- dibular barbels subequal, ^ length of head, inner riandibular ^ ; occipital Fig. Phractum lonjlcauda. Type. process about twice as long as broad, widely separated from the inter- neural shield. Dorsal I 6, first ray longest, spinulose, as long as head; second dorsal very small, originating above last rays of anal. Anal II 6. Pectoral slightly longer than head, not reaching root of ventral. Caudal peduncle depressed, very slender, f total length, 25 dorsal and 19 ventral shields, of which 11 are on caudal peduncle, the last 4 united round the latter. Brownish above, speckled with dark brown, white beneath ; fins spotted with blackish. Total length 77 millim. South Cameroon. 1. Type. Mvilo K. G. L. Bates Es(j. (C). ('.. FHIIACTUHA AXSoUGII. Boulong. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. p. ()23, pi. xxxvii. fig. 1. Depth of body 10 times in total length, length of head 5 times. Head H times as long as broad, rugose above, covered with thin skin ; a median lid^e on the snout, bifurcating towaids the inleroibital region ;. 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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