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ANABANTID.^. 



13. ANABAS MURIEL 

 Clenopoma petherici, part., Gunth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xiii. 1801, p. 211, and 



Fetherick's Trav. ii. p. 208 (ISCD). 

 Anabas petherici, Pellegr. Mem. .Soc. Zool, Franco, xvii. VM), p. 185. 

 Anahas mui-iei, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xviii. V.m, p. 318, and Fisli. 



Nile, p. 441, pi. Ixxxiii. fig. 2 (I'.IOT). 

 Deptli of body equal to length of head, 2| to 3 times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is o| to 4| times in 

 length of head and 1 to l^ times in interorbital width; maxillary 

 extending to below anterior fourth or third of eye; palatine teeth 

 present; prteorbital and prpeoperculum entire; intcroperculum often 



pi.'. :i9. 



>1 •<-■ 1 .» :« 



m 



Anabas muriei. 

 Type (F. N.). 



entire; subopercul\im finely serrated; operculum witli two groups of 

 strono- serra?, with a deep notch between them. 5 or 6 very short gill- 

 rakt'rs on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIV^XVl 8-10 ; spines 

 sub(-(pud from the fifth or sixth, about |- length of head ; longest soft 

 rays about f length of head. Anal IX-XI 8-10, similar to dorsal. 

 Pectoral § to | length of head. Ventral reaching origin of anal or a 

 little beyond. Caudal rounded. A mere indication of a caudal 

 peduncle. Scales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 27-28 .ji^^; lateral 

 jii^ps ^-hl^, Olive, with numerous small black spots ; a blackish ocellar 

 spot edged with yellowish at the root of, and partly upon, the caud.il 



fin. 



Total length 80 millim. 

 White Nile, Bahr-el-Gebel, Lake Victoria. 

 1-2. Types. Kaka, White Nile. 



3-22. ., 

 23. Skcl. 



Gharb-el-Aisb. White Nile 



L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



