Identifier: tanganyikaproble00moor (find matches)
Title: The Tanganyika problem; an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine animals in Central Africa
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, John Edward S
Subjects: Zoology Marine animals Freshwater animals
Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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emarginate, crescentic. Caudal peduncle 3 times as long as deep. Scales 2 27 strongly denticulate, 38 — ; lat. 1. —. Brown, darker on the snout and vertex ;& y J 11 20 a blackish opercular spot; fins greyish. Total length, 95 millim. Described from a single specimen from Msambu. 81. Eretmodus cyanostictus.—Blegr. 1898. (Fig. p. 187. Upper.) Eight or 10 transverse series of teeth in each jaw, the crowns reddish brown.Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. Profile of snoutcurved ; length of snout \h to twice diameter of eye, which is 4^ to 5 times in lengthof head, and a little less than interorbital width; mouth extending to belownostril; cheeks and opercles naked. Gill-rakers short, 9 or 10 on lower part ofanterior arch. Dorsal XXIII.-XXV. 3-5 ; spines sub-equal from the sixth, i\ lengthof head, a little shorter than soft rays Pectoral f length of head. Ventral reachingvent. Anal III. 6-7; third spine longest, a little longer than dorsals; soft rays
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i . H 2 THE TANGANYIKA PROBLEM. about § length of head. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle deeper than long. 3 22—23 Scales 32-3<; — ; lat. 1 -^— . Blackish brown, with scattered pale blue dots ; J JJ 11—12 6—9 belly yellowish. Total length, 75 millim. Described from five specimens from Mbity Rocks and three from Kinyamkolo. The toothed portions of the prcemaxillary and mandible are much developed indepth, in a manner suggestive of the Sparida and Scaridm, and the teeth areimplanted in sockets. The deep triangular groove for the reception of the prse-maxillaries extends to between the orbits, and the occipital crest is prolonged to it;the parietal crests are produced on the frontals ; the pmeorbital is large, and thechain of suborbitals very slender. The pharyngeal teeth have long, slender shaftsand conical brown cusps. The ribs are attached to the back of short transverseprocesses ; all but the last one support epipleurals; the last four prcecaudal vertebraehave a hcemal b

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