The Tanganyika problem; an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine animals in Central Africa

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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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lar teeth in asingle series of 16, feebly curved, simple, measuring hardly diameter of eye.Depth of body i times in total length ; length of head, 3§. Head scarcely longerthan broad, slightly convex on the crown ; snout rounded, less than half length ofhead, twice as long as eye ; eye supero-lateral, well visible from above, its diameter4t times in length of head, twice in interorbital width. Gill-cleft very narrow,not extending below base of pectoral. Maxillary barbel simple, reaching a littlebeyond anterior third of pectoral spine ; mandibular barbels strongly fringed, outera little more than twice as long as inner, and half as long as maxillaries. DorsalII. 7 ; spine strong, a little shorter than the head, strongly serrated behind in itsdistal half. Adipose fin low, a little shorter than the head, twice as long as itsdistance from the dorsal. Humeral process simply granulate, sharply pointed, notextending quite so far as the occipito-nuchal shield, which is h as long as broad,
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168 THE TANGANYIKA PROBLEM. and reaches the first soft ray of the dorsal. Anal III. 7. Caudal deeply bifurcate.Skin smooth. Pale reddish brown above, with very numerous blackish brown roundspots, which are smaller on head and nape ; lower parts and barbels whiteunspotted ; ventrals yellow ; dorsal and caudal broadly edged with yellow. Total length, 240 millim. Described from a single specimen from Sumbu. 23. Malapterurus electricus. Lacep. 1801.Kalambo. CYPRINODONTID^. 24. Haplochilus tanganicanus.—Blgr. 1900. (Fig., p. 181, lower.) Body compressed, its depth 4 times in total length ; length of head, 43 times.Snout depressed ; lower jaw projecting beyond the upper ; eye a little longer thansnout, a little shorter than interorbital width, 3 times in length of head. Dorsal 13,originating at equal distance from the head and the caudal fin ; the first ray corre-sponds to the 18th scale of the lateral line ; posterior rays longest, f length of head.Anal 28, originating below extremity of

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