. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. 102 i':. 1. Ad. 2. Ad. 3. Ad. 4. Hot. .5. Ad. C-IO. Ad. ct ligr. 11. Skel, Asliantee. Niger. Old Calabar. Banana, Con;;o W. Afri.'a. .1. Cadman, Esq. (P.). Mr. L. Fraser (C). A. :\Iuiray, Es(i. ( 2. POLYNEMUS. Limi. Syst. Nat. i. p. 521 (), part. ; Cuv. ct Val. Hist. Poiss. iii. p. -^Ci (182'.)), part.; Giinth. Cat. Fish. ii. p. 319 (18G0); Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Conoo, p. 3G0 (1901). Tricliiodon (Klein), Bleek. Nat. Verh. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1803, no. 2, p. 90. Villiform teeth
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. 102 i':. 1. Ad. 2. Ad. 3. Ad. 4. Hot. .5. Ad. C-IO. Ad. ct ligr. 11. Skel, Asliantee. Niger. Old Calabar. Banana, Con;;o W. Afri.'a. .1. Cadman, Esq. (P.). Mr. L. Fraser (C). A. :\Iuiray, Es(i. ( 2. POLYNEMUS. Limi. Syst. Nat. i. p. 521 (), part. ; Cuv. ct Val. Hist. Poiss. iii. p. -^Ci (182'.)), part.; Giinth. Cat. Fish. ii. p. 319 (18G0); Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Conoo, p. 3G0 (1901). Tricliiodon (Klein), Bleek. Nat. Verh. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1803, no. 2, p. 90. Villiform teeth in the jaws, on tlic vomer, and on the palatines and ectopterygoids. MaxiUary much widened behind. Edge of pifEopercnlum denticulate. Soft dorsal and anal fius of equal size. Tropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. Fi-. Pohjnemus qiiadrifilis. Senegal, after Steindaclnier {I. c). i. ]. POLYNEMUS QUADllIFILIS. Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 390, pi. , and vii. p. 518 (1831) ; Guiitli. t. c. p. 330 ; Steind. Sitzh. Ak. Wien, Ix. i. 1869, p. 698, pi. x. ; Bouleng. op. cit. p. 3(;i. Tnch'toihn quadrifdis, Bleek. Nat. Verh. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1863, no. 2, p. 88. Depth of body 4. to 4| times in total length, length of head o to 3i times. Snout more or less pointed, projecting strongly beyond mouth, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is large and partly hidden imder adipose tissue ; mouth large, maxillary extending beyond. 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 Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937; British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology. Lond.
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