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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 
Vol. 92 
Washington : 1942 
No. 3152 
THE FRESH-WATER FISHES OF LIBERIA 
By Lronarp P. ScHuLtz 
INTRODUCTION 
This report on the fresh-water fishes of Liberia is based mostly 
on the excellent collection made by Dr. William M. Mann, director 
of the National Zoological Park, Washington, D. C., while he was 
directing the Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia in 1940.7 
This collection was supplemented by others in the United States 
National Museum and by a small collection lent by the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology,’ through the courtesy of Dr. Thomas Barbour 
and W. C. Schroeder. 
One new cyprinid genus, Mannichthys, six new species, and one 
_ new subspecies are described, as follows: 
Characinidae: 
Nannocharazr seyboldi 
Cyprinidae: 
Barilius silexr 
Siluridae: 
Paramphilius firestonet 
Cyprinodontidae: 
Micropanchax macrurus manni 
Mannichthys lucileae 
Barbus flomoi 
Barbus boboi 
Although Dr. Mann was in Liberia for the purpose of obtaining 
animals for the National Zoological Park at Washington, D. C., he 
found time to collect over 2,400 specimens of fishes from three river 
systems. This collection of fresh-water fishes is one of the best ever 
1Mann, W. M. and Mann, L. Q., Collecting live animals in Liberia. 
Smithsonian Inst. 1940, pp. 13-20, 10 figs., 1941. 
2Most of these fishes were collected by Dr. Glover M. Allen while he was with the 
Harvard African Expedition, 1926—1927, 
Explor, Field-Work 
reported upon in ‘The African Republic of 
Liberia and the Belgian Congo,” edited by Richard P. Strong, vols. 1 and 2, 1064 pp., 
Harvard University Press, 1930. 
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