. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 558 Annals of the Ko/iHi African Museum. large, hidden in the lip but bordering the mouth; jaws with a band of villiform teeth ; no teeth on the palate. Gill-membranes free, deeply notched. Air-bladder absent. Vertebrae 41 (19 — 20 x 20 — 21). Eight or 0 branchiostegal rays. A more or less distinct foramen above the axil. Tropical ; AMPHILIUS LONGIROSTKIS, Blgr. Anoplopterus longirostris, Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii, 1901, p. 447. Amphilius lonfjirostris, Bouleng., Proc. Zo
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 558 Annals of the Ko/iHi African Museum. large, hidden in the lip but bordering the mouth; jaws with a band of villiform teeth ; no teeth on the palate. Gill-membranes free, deeply notched. Air-bladder absent. Vertebrae 41 (19 — 20 x 20 — 21). Eight or 0 branchiostegal rays. A more or less distinct foramen above the axil. Tropical ; AMPHILIUS LONGIROSTKIS, Blgr. Anoplopterus longirostris, Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii, 1901, p. 447. Amphilius lonfjirostris, Bouleng., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1903, i, p. 25, pi. i fig. 3, and 1905, i, p. 64, and Freshw. Fish. Africa, ii, p. 359, fig. 279 (1911), and iv, p. 308 (1916).. FIG. 168.—Amphilius longirostris. Type (, 1903). Teeth in a villiform band. Depth of body 6f to 9 times in total length excluding caudal, length of head 4 to 4| times. Head much depressed, ly1^ to ly^ times as long as broad ; snout obtusely pointed, about i length of head ; eye very small, in second half of head, 6-^ to 8 times in length of head, 2 to 2£ times in iuterocular width; posterior nostril midway between eye and end of snout; maxillary barbel -§• to nearly the same length as head, reaching root of pectoral or beyond; outer mandibular barbel f to -/^ length of head, inner about -f. Gill- rakers moderate, 5 or 6 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal i 6 ; much nearer to end of snout than to root of caudal; adipose dorsal low, 1^ times to twice as long as rayed dorsal, and -i- to as long as its distance from the latter. Pectoral ~ to as. long as head. Ventral a little shorter than pectoral, well behind base of 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 South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum.
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