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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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; adipose finblack; caudal edged with blackish. Total length 340 millim. Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren.1. One of the types. Manyanga. Capt. Wilvcrth (0.). 4. HYDROCYON GOLIATH. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 23, pi. xi. (1898), and Poiss. Bass. Congo,p. 141 O901). Depth of body 3f to i.\ times in total length, length of head 3f to HYDKOCYON. 185 4; times. Head H to 1\ times as long as broad; snout \\ to 2 timesdiameter of eye, which is \.\ to 5^ times in length of head and \\ to 2\times in interoibital width ; mouth extending to below anterior borderof eye, maxillary to below centre of eye; 5 large teeth in upper jaw,4 in lower; suborbital and opercular bones rather strongly striated.Gill-rakers very short, 10-12 on lower part of anterior arch. DorsalII 8-9, originating above ventral, at equal distance from end of snoutand from caudal, or a little nearer latter. Anal III 13-16, originatingat equal distance from base of ventral and from caudal. Pectoral as Pig. 142.
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Hydrocyon goliath.Type (A. M. C). A. long as ventral, ; to f length of head. Caudal deeply forked, withpointed lobes. Caudal peduncle once and § as long as deep. Scales•54-58 9s^3, 3 between lateral line and scaly process at base of ventral.Olive-brown above, silvery white on the sides and beneath ; more orless distinct dark lines along the series of scales above lateral line ;these lines absent in the young; dorsal yellow or red; adipose finblack; caudal edged with blackish, lower lobe red. Total length 1 metre or more. Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. One of the types. Manyanga. Capt. Wilvcrth (C). 2. One o£ the types. New Antwerp. „ 3. 4. Ad. & hgr. Monsembe. Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.).5-6. Yg. Bolobo. Rev. G. Grenfell (0.).7. Ad. Upper Congo. Brussels University. 186 CHARAClNlDiE. 5. HYDROCYON BREVIS.Hydrocyon forskalii, part., Cuv. & Val. Hist, Poiss. xxii. p. 309 (1849) ; Peters, Eeise Mossamb. iv. p. 69 (1868).Hydrocyon hrevis, Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 351

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