. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. CYrmNODONTIDJi:. lip blackish ; fins grey, edged with black, dorsal and anal with round purplish-grey spots. Total length 70 millim. Ogowe. 1-2. Types. Masonia K., flowiiifr into L. A<Temwe Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). at Umpokoya. U. HAPtOCHILUS SEXFASCIATUS. Ep'iplalijs sexfasciatiis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 13G ; Cope, Proc. Amcr. Philos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. IlaplocliUus ivfrafasnatvs, Guntb. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 313 (1806); Steiiul. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 76 ;
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. CYrmNODONTIDJi:. lip blackish ; fins grey, edged with black, dorsal and anal with round purplish-grey spots. Total length 70 millim. Ogowe. 1-2. Types. Masonia K., flowiiifr into L. A<Temwe Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). at Umpokoya. U. HAPtOCHILUS SEXFASCIATUS. Ep'iplalijs sexfasciatiis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 13G ; Cope, Proc. Amcr. Philos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. IlaplocliUus ivfrafasnatvs, Guntb. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 313 (1806); Steiiul. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 76 ; Lonnl). Ot'v. Fiirh. Stockh. 1895, p. 188. Ilaplocluhis , Boideiig. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, i. p. 27; Arnold, Wocli. Aq. Terr. 1911, p. 557, fig. ; Gerlach, 131. Aq. Terr. 1912, p. 741, fig. Li/cocyprinus , Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. 146. Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 3J to 3| times. Head flat above; snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw feebly projecting; eye 3^ to S| times in length of head, about | interorbital width ; prseoibital about J diameter of eye. Dorsal 10-12, originating twice as far from occiput as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest rays about Fig. HapJochilus J, Ogowe. I length of head in males, sliorter in females. Anal 15-17. Pectoral I to f length of head, extending a little beyond root of ventral; latter equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal as long as or a little longer than head, rounded-subcarinate. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-32 scales in longitudinal series, 20-22 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line indicated by a scries of pits. Prown above, yellowish beneath, with carmine dots and usually 5 to 7 blackish vertical bars on the body, confined, except the last, to the lower part of the side; the first bar usually just behind the base of the ])cctoral; two
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