. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. CLAEIAS. 247 length of the fin. Ventrals much nearer end of snout than caudal. Caudal \ length of head. Uniform blackish brown. Total length 140 millim. Lake Tanganyika ; Upper Ubanghi. Fig. Clarias liocephalus. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). 1-2. Types. L. Tanganyika. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 3. Ad. Banzyville, Ubanghi. Capt. Eoyaux (C). 17. CLARIAS BREVICEPS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 135, pi. xlviii. fig. 6 (1900), Poiss. Bass. Con
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. CLAEIAS. 247 length of the fin. Ventrals much nearer end of snout than caudal. Caudal \ length of head. Uniform blackish brown. Total length 140 millim. Lake Tanganyika ; Upper Ubanghi. Fig. Clarias liocephalus. Type (Tr. Z. S. 1898). 1-2. Types. L. Tanganyika. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 3. Ad. Banzyville, Ubanghi. Capt. Eoyaux (C). 17. CLARIAS BREVICEPS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 135, pi. xlviii. fig. 6 (1900), Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 258, pi. xiii. fig. 1 (1901), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 1080. Depth of body 6 to 8 times in total length, length of head A\ to 5 times. Head 1^- times as long as broad, smooth; occipital process angular ; fontanelles small, the frontal sole-shaped and nearly -§• length of head, the occipital oval and partly on the occipital process ; eye very small, its diameter 3 times in length of snout, 6 times in interorbital width ; width of mouth equal to interorbital width, \ length of head; vomerine teeth conical, forming a crescentic band which is as broad as the priEmaxillary band ; nasal barbel § length of head; maxillary barbel as long as or a little longer than head, extending to extremity of pectoral; outer mandibular barbel about \\ length of inner, which measures. 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, George Albert, 1858-1937. London : Printed by order of the Trustees : Sold by Longmans & Co. , B. Quaritch, Dulau & Co. , and at the British Museum (Natural History)
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