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KANN'L'MA A1ORMYRUS. 



Mormyrus Kannume. M. rostra dccumj, antda b\ftdd obtusa, 

 pinna dorsah rndiis scxaginta-trilnis. 



Mormyrus with decurvate snout, bifid obtuse tail, and sixty- 

 three rays in the dorsal fin. 



Mormyrus Kannume. Forsk. Arab. Lin. Gmel. 



COLOUR whitish : body much compressed : lower" 

 lip longer than the upper: lateral line strait: dorsal 

 fin half the length of the back. Native of the Nile. 



SHARP-SNOUTED MORMYRUS. 



Mormyrus Oxyrhynchus. M. rostra recto, maxilla inferiors 



longiorc, pinna dorsali fongititdifM dorxi. 

 Mormyrus with strait snout, lower jaw longer than the upper, 



and dorsal fin running the whole length of the back. 

 Mormyre Oxyrhynche. Cepede. 5. p. 619. 



NATIVE of the Nile : supposed by Mons r . Geoffrey 

 to have been the Oxyrhynchus of the ancients. 



ANGUILLIFORM MORMYRUS. 



Mormyrus Anguilloides. M. rostro acuto, maxillis cequalibus, 

 pinna dorsali radii s I'lginfi-tex, aiuda bijida obtuwt. 



Mormyrus with sharp snout, equal jaws, twenty- six rays in 

 the dorsal fin, and bifid acute tail. 



Mormyrus anguilloides. Lin. Gmel. Mormyre Dendera, 

 Ceptde. 5. p. big. 



DORSAL fin placed opposite the anal, and some* 

 what shorter than that fin. Native of the Nile. 



