. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 44S SILUMDJE, peduncle longer than deep. Brown, covered with small round dark spots. Total length 600 millim. Niger. 1. Type, stuffed. Niger. Mr. J. T. Dal ton (C). The following specimens are referred provisionally and with doubt to this species :— 2-4. Yg. Ogun R. at Aro, Lagos. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 38. SYNODONTIS LONGIROSTRIS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 44, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1902). Depth of body 4f times in total length, head 3
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 44S SILUMDJE, peduncle longer than deep. Brown, covered with small round dark spots. Total length 600 millim. Niger. 1. Type, stuffed. Niger. Mr. J. T. Dal ton (C). The following specimens are referred provisionally and with doubt to this species :— 2-4. Yg. Ogun R. at Aro, Lagos. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 38. SYNODONTIS LONGIROSTRIS. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 44, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1902). Depth of body 4f times in total length, head 3 times. Head 1^ times as long as broad, rugose above from between the eyes ; snout obtusely pointed, twice as long as postocular part of head ; eye supero-lateral, 5J times in length of head, 1§ times in interorbital width; lips rather Fig, Synoclontis longirostns. Type (A. M. C). f. strongly developed ; prsemaxillary teeth forming a short, broad band; movable mandibular teeth about \ diameter of eye, 24 in number, Maxillary barbel not margined, \ length of head, barely reaching root of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel not quite twice as long as. 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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