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DR. W. A. CUXNINGTON ON THE 



Table of Distrihutlon of Pisces 



Name of Species 



Taiigan- Victoria »t ^ _,^ Albert EdvA-ard 

 yika. Nyanza. -^ '' ' Nyanza. Nyanza. 



Kiv 



Otlier parts of 

 the world. 



Family Polypteeid^. 



Polypterus coiigicus P* 



„ senegalus 



Family Lepidosieenid^. 



Protopteriis ifitliiopieus P P 



Family MoEMTEiDiE. 



Mormyrops deliciosus 



Petroceplialus catostoma 



„ degeiii E 



Marcusenius nigricans ... P 



„ discorliynchus .. P 



„ petherici ... P§ 



Gnatbonemus longibarbis ... ... E 



Mormyrus kanuuine ... P 



,, longirostris P 



Family Clupeid.2E. 



Pellonula raiodon , E 



Stolothrissa tanganicaj Geu. E 



Family CHAEACisiDiE. 



Hydrocyoii forskalii 



„ lineatxis P 



Alestes deutex 



„ macroplitlialmus P 



,, i-adleri ... E 



„ nurse ... P 



„ jacksonii ... E; 



,, imbevi 



„ vittatns E 



„ rbodopleura E 



Cithariiins gibbosus P 



P 



P?| 



Congo R. 



W. Africa, Nile. 



Nile, Soudan. 



W. Africa, Zambezi. 

 Eovuma R. 



East Africa. 



Zambezi. 



Nile. 



Victoria Nile. 



Nile. 



Rangweolo, Zambezi. 



W. Africa, Nile. 

 Tropical Africa. 

 W. Africa, Nile. 

 Mwero, Congo, Gaboon. 

 Malawa R. 

 W. Africa, Nile. 

 Malawa R. 

 Congo, Zambezi. 



Congo R. 



-j- For furtber details relating to tbe Pisces, see in particular the comprehensive ' Catalogue 

 of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa,' by G. A. Boulenger (36), which is the authority on 

 which, in the main, I have relied in preparing the adjoining list. It is necessary to make it 

 quite clear that I follow Boulenger in regarding (1) the fishes obtained from that part of 

 the Victoria Nile which lies between Lake Victoria and the Murchison Falls as belonging 

 essentially to the lacustrine and not to tbe Nile fauna, and (2) the fish collected from the 

 Upper Shir6 River (as opposed to the Lower Shire) as constituents of the fauna of Lake 

 Nyasa. Pealing with the records in this sense, therefore, fishes have been described as 

 endemic in Victoria Nyanza when they have been taken in the Victoria Nile as well as in 

 the lake itself, or even should they have been obtained only from the Victoria Nile. For 

 Nyasa and the Upper Shire the same [irinciple is adopted. In a few cases also, fishes taken 

 within T,he obvious drainage area of a lake are included in the list, as it would clearlj' be 

 illogical to omit them. All the instances, however, in which records are not actually from 

 the lakes themselves, are specially indicated by a §. 



* Thvovighout this paper, wherever a tabular foi-m has been adopted, an E is used to 

 indicate that tbe species referred to is endemic ; P, that it is present in the lake named but 

 known elsewhere. Gen. E implies that the genus is endemic. 



§ Not actually recorded from the lake itself. See footnote above. 



II This record needs confirmation. 



