DISTICIIODUS. 



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lateral line and root of ventral. Olive or dark grey above, white beneath, 

 the sides with large round dark spots forming four or five irregular 











DisticJiodus hrevipinnla. 

 Wliitp Xile(F. N.). ^- 



longitudinal series; fins greyish, except the 

 dorsal spotted with black; vcntrals and anal 



Total length 220 millim. 



White Nile, Cliad Basin, Senegal, Nigor. 



]-3. Types. 



4-5. Hgr. 



G. Yg. 



7-8. Hgr. 



9. Ad., head & tail. 

 10-11. Yg. 

 12. Yg. 

 13-14. Hgr. 



Khartum. 



Fashoda, White Nile. 



Yo Tliver, Lake Chad. 



Kaedi, Senegal. 



Jebba, U[)per Niger. 



Agberi, Lower Niger. 



Assay, 



Benue River, N. of n.i. 



pectoral, which is whitish ; 

 sometimes blackish. 



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14. DISTICHODUS NILOTICUS. 



Salmo nilodcus, part., Linn, in Hasselq. Reise Palae-t. p. 422 (17t>2j. 



Salmo cec/i/ptiacus, part., Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. )>. 1386 (1788). 



C/iamrinus vefasch^ part., Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 271 (l-'^O^) ; Geoffr. Descr. 



Egypte, Poiss. p. 44 (1809). 

 Citharinus nefasch, part., Riipp. Be.'^chr. n. Fiscbe Nil, p. 5 fl829). 

 Distichodus niloticus, Miill. & Trosch. Hor. Tchthyol. i. p. 12, {)!. i. fig. 3 (1845) ; 



Giinth. Cat. Fi^li. v. p. 3G0 (1804). and Petherirk's Trav. ii. p. 246 (1869) ; 

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