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Title: Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937
Subjects: British Museum (Natural History) Fishes Freshwater animals
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees : Sold by Longmans & Co., B. Quaritch, Dulau & Co., and at the British Museum (Natural History)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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pes of M.tanaailicanus. L. Nyassa. River at Msamba, L. Tanganyika.Sumbu, L. Tanganyika. J. A. Williams, Esq. (C).Dr. W. A. Cunnington (C). 21. MARCUSENIUS PETHERICI.Mormyrus diseorhynclnts (non Peters), Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 220 (1866), and Pethericks Trav. ii. p. 255 (1869).Marcusenius pet/ierici, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 7 (1898), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 797, and Fish. Nile, p. 45, pi. viii. fig. 3 (1907). Depth of body 2f to 3^ times in total length, length of head 4f to 5times. Head as long as deep or a little deeper than long, If to Iftimes as long as broad ; snout \ to \ length of head, rounded, projectingbeyond mouth ; mouth situated below nostrils, its width 4f to 5f timesin length of head; teeth bicuspid, truncate when worn down, 5 in upperjaw, 6 in lower; nostrils on a line with lower border of eye, nearerlatter than end of snout; eye moderate, as long as or a little longer thansnout, about f interocular width. Dorsal 34-30, as long as or a little Pig. 65.
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Marcuaeni us pe therici.Type (P. N.). f. shorter than its distance from head. Anal 24-26, originating below14th to 16th ray of dorsal, equally distant from base of ventraland from base of caudal, or a little nearer latter. Pectoral pointed,subfalcate, nearly as long as head, If to If times length of ventral andextending beyond base of latter. Caudal with pointed lobes. Caudalpeduncle 2-J- to 3 times as long as deep, as long as or a little shorter MAKCUSENIUS. S3 than head. 55-65 scales in lateral line, !-;J£ in transverse series on 12-13 body, jg-jg in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudalpeduncle. Brown above, silvery white below, more or less speckledwith darker; an ill-defined dark bar, extending obliquely from origin ofdorsal to that of anal, sometimes present; dorsal fin, and sometimesalso anal, brownish in front. Total length 220 millim. White Nile and Blue Nile.Khartum. 1—3. Types. 4. Skel. 5. Ad.6-9. Ad. Fashoda, White Nile.Wad Medine, Blue Nile. J. Pet

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