Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . .), Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. macrolepidotus, part., Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 158 (1901).Alestes rhodojAeura, Bouleng, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii 1906, p. 547, pi. xxx. fig. 3. Depth of body 4 times in total length, length of head 4 to ih times. ALESTES. 219 Head nearly twice as long as broad, longer than deep, its width muchless than its length to occiput; snout feebly projecting beyond lower jaw,once and j diameter of eye, which is 4 times in length of head; adiposeeyelid feebly deve
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . .), Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. macrolepidotus, part., Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 158 (1901).Alestes rhodojAeura, Bouleng, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii 1906, p. 547, pi. xxx. fig. 3. Depth of body 4 times in total length, length of head 4 to ih times. ALESTES. 219 Head nearly twice as long as broad, longer than deep, its width muchless than its length to occiput; snout feebly projecting beyond lower jaw,once and j diameter of eye, which is 4 times in length of head; adiposeeyelid feebly developed; interorbital width nearly half length of head; Q maxillary not extending to below anterior border of eye; 18 teeth (j^)in upper jaw, 10 (|) in lower; lower border of second suborbital as longas or a little longer than eye. Gill-rakers moderately long, 18-19 onlower part of anterior arch. Dorsal II 8, considerably behind verticalof base of ventrals, originating much nearer caudal than end of snout,longest ray about f length of head. Anal III 12—13. Pectoral as long Pig. Alestes (Tr. Z. S. 1906). \. as head, not reaching ventral. Caudal forked. Caudal peduncle 1-| to2 times as long as deep. Scales with numerous anastomosing canals,28-29 2?, 1 between lateral line and root of ventral. Olive-green above,silvery below, with an ill-defined pink band along each side ; a largeblackish blotch on caudal peduncle at root of caudal. Total length 300 millim. Lake Tanganyika. 1. Type. Tanganyika. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 2. Type. Nyamkolo. Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C). 3. Type. Mfcondwe Bay. „4-5. Types. Lofu. „ 220 CHARACIMDJE. 23. ALESTES GRANDISQUAMIS. Bouleug. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 85, pi. xxxv. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. , p. 159 (1901). Depth of body 3J to 4 times in total length, length of head of to 4-Jtimes. Head 1^ to 1|- times as long as broad, a little longer than deep,its width a little less than its length to occiput in the adul
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