) FISHES. 



BY 



EINAR LONNBERG. 



The first fishes from the fresh waters of the Kilimandjaro district were collected 

 by Dr. G. A. FISCHER and subsequently in the year 1883 described by Dr. J. G. FISCHER.* 

 They only numbered four species viz. Tilapia nilotica, Clariax rnbecchi (-C1. mos.^iin- 

 hiciiK FISCHER nee PETERS), Barb us pagenstecheri and B. neumayen, the two last being- 

 described as new. A few years later GtJNTHER 3 described four new species, Tilapia liun- 

 Irri, Si/tniriontis punctulatus, Labco ttwntanus and Barbus jackxoni. 



In the year 1896 PFEFFER* enumerated 101 species of fresh water fishes belonging 

 to the fauna of German East Africa. The following year he published a new list with 

 the number increased to 103. 4 There are, however, in these lists no direct additions to 

 the fauna of the Kilimandjaro district, although some species are recorded from places 

 situated not far from the same, as for instance Barb it* vincigerrai and B. jacksoni 

 from the Wembere steppe, B. oxyrhynchus and B. quadripiinctatus from Korogwe in 

 Usambara, Chiloglanis deckenii and some other silurids, and Barbus salmo from Pangani 

 river. 



In the year 1903 BOULENGER described 5 four new species of Barbus from Kilimand- 

 jaro viz. B. percirali, lunticnxi*, lineomaculatus and amphigramma, and recorded at 

 1 he same time Discognathus dembeensis as new to the district, and Labeo montatms and 

 Tihipin ItUHlcri as refound. 



Through Professor SJOSTEDT'S collections the ichthyological fauna of the Kilimand- 

 jaro-Meru district and Usambara has received some interesting additions. Eleven spe- 

 cies are represented (viz. 6 from Kilimandjaro-Meru and 5 from Usambara), four of 

 these are more or less new and one cannot be determined with certainty on account of 

 of the youth of the specimens. Of the 6 species from Kilimandjaro-Meru not less than 

 three species have been described from Mount Kenya viz. Discognathus hindii, Barbus 

 hindii and Amphilius grandis, one, Barbus percivali is known from Kilimandjaro before, 

 one Clarias nwxxambicus is rather more widely distributed from the Wembere steppe to 

 Mozambique, and the sixth is new but its nearest relative Barb us macropristis has been 



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 :; Dir Tliifrwclt iKt-At'rikas. lici-lin ls;ni. 

 1 Ardi. f. Xiiturgeschichtr. .Talir-f. fjii. 1M. 1. 

 ; ' Ann. Ma- Nat. Hist (7) V,,l. XI. 

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