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SALAYA MORMYRUS. 



Mormyrus Salahia. M. rostro obtuso, maxilla inferior e longiorc, 



puma dorsali anah breviore. 

 Mormyrus with the lower jaw longer than the upper, and 



dorsal fin shorter than the anal. 

 Mormyre Salahie. Cepede. 5. p. 6lQ. 



DORSAL fin placed opposite the anal : observed 

 by Geoffroy in the desert near Salaya, where they 

 had been thrown by an inundation, and left in a 

 rlrv state. 



Mormyrus Bebe. M. rostro obtuso, maxillis fcqualibus, pinna 



dorsali anali sexies breviore. 

 Mormyrus with obtuse snout, and dorsal fin six times shorter 



than the anal. 

 Mormyre Bebe. Cepede. 5. p. 619. 



DORSAL fin placed opposite the anal as in the 

 preceding : native of the Nile ; observed in plenty 

 near the region of Bebe, 



HERSE' MORMYRUS. 



'Mormyrus Herse. M. rostro obtuso, maxilla superiors longiore, 



pinna dorsali longitudine dorsi. 

 Mormyrus with obtuse snout, upper jaw longer than the 



lower, and dorsal fin running the whole length of the back. 

 Mormyre Herse. Cepede. 5. p. 6'2O. 



NATIVE of the Nile : called by the Arabians 

 Herd. 



