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14. FUNDULUS T^NIOPYGUS. 



Fundulus [Xotlwhmnclims) ortlionotus, var., Hilgend. Sitzb. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 



1888, p. 78. 

 Nolliobranclnus taniiopygus, Hilgend. op. cit. 1891, p. 20. 

 Fundulus treniojji/ffus, PfefE. Thierw. O.-Afr., Fisclie, p. 48 (1896) ; Hilgend. Zool. 



Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, p. 416 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 413, pi. Ixxix. fig. 5 



(1907). 



Depth of body 3| times in total length, length of head 3 to 3J times. 

 Upper surface of head convex from between the eyes ; snout short and 

 broad ; mouth directed upAvards ; lower jaAv projecting ; eye 3^ times in 

 length of head, 1^ times in interorbital width; space between eye and 

 lip very narrow, the latter forming an angle fitting into a notch close to 

 the former. Dorsal 17, originating a little in a<lvance of anal and at 



Fio-. 28. 



Fundulus tmniopyrjus. 

 d , type ,(E. N.). 



equal distance from eye and from root of caudal, longest rays | to | 

 length of head. Anal 17-18. Small spine-like tubercles on the dorsal 

 and anal in the male. Pectoral about f length of head ; ventral midway 

 between end of snout and root of caudal. Caudal rounded. Caudal 

 peduncle If- times as long as deep. 30-31 scales in longitudinal series, 

 22-24 round body in front of ventrals; lateral line indicated by an 

 interrupted series of pits. Male brown, with dark edges to the scales ; 

 dorsal fin dark purplish brown ; anal and caudal purplish brown, with 

 a whitish band across the middle. Female lighter and uniformly 

 coloured. 



Total length 52 millim. 



Lake Victoria, Lake Tshaya in Unyamwesi, and Bubu Kiver, south of 

 Lake Manyara.— Types in Berlin Museum. 

 j^_3_ ^d. Bubu R. near Irango. Prof. 0. Neumann (C). 



