Comprehensive Description
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Depth 3 1/4 to 3 7/8; head 3 1/3 to 3 1/2, width 2. Snout 4 2/3 to 5 in head; eye 6 1/3 to 9, 1 1/3 to 2 in snout, 1 4/5 to 2 1/8 in interorbital; mouth cleft very short, about level with lower part of eye; mouth width 5 in head from snout tip; mandibular pad moderate, coriaceous; teeth 5 above, 5 or 6 below, simple, conic; interorbital 3 to 3 1/5, moderately high, rather broadly convex. Gill opening 22 to 24 in head.
Scales 46 to 50 + 4 or 5 in lateral line, largest on caudal peduncle; 12 or 13 above, 13 or 14 below; on predorsal medially more or less obscure or obsolete. Caudal largely scaly, onlv about hind or terminal fourth of fin naked. Scales with 18 to 20 basal radiating striae, parallel, marginal and several usually incomplete, connected bv reticulations so 15 to 18 reach apical edge; circuli fine, complete.
D. III, 21, I or III, 22, I, first branched ray 2 to 2 1/8 in total head length, fin origin little behind anal origin; A. III, 25, I to III, 28, I, first branched ray 2 1/10 to 2 1/8; caudal 1 1/3 to 1 3/5 deeply emarginate, with broad, rounded lobes; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 4 3/4; pectoral 11 to 12, rays I, 9; ventral rays 6, fin origin opposite last eighth of depressed pectoral, fin length 2 1/2 to 2 7/8 in total head length. Largely dark sooty brown, head darker or blackish brown. Fins all dull brown, with olivaceous tints. Iris dark gray.
A.N.S.P., No. 65543. Lake Victoria at Kitala, Uganda. August 9 to 16. Length 208 mm. Type. Also No. 65544, same data, paratype. Length 200 mm.
(For Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, zoologist of the Expedition, to whose enterprise and care the scientific results are largely due.)
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