PELMATOCHEOMIS. 



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22. PELMATOCHROMIS MULTIDENS. 



Faratilapia multidens, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1900, p. 98. 



Pelmatochromis ta'iiiatus (non Bouleng. 1901), Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. 



ii. p. 5.^, pi. xvi. (1902). 

 PelmatocJiromis poli/odo)i, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, i. p. 237. 

 P elmatochromh multidens, Pelegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 285. 

 ParatUapia Jiahereri, Steind. Anz. Ak. Wien, 1912, p. 448, and Denkschr. Ak. 



Wien, Ixxxix. 1913, p. 55, fig. 1, pi. ix. fig. 2. 



Depth of body 2 to 2y times in total length, length of head 2| to 

 2f times. Head If to 2 times as long as broad ; snout rounded, with 



Fiof. 277. 











Pelmatocliromis multidens. 

 Type of P. polyodon (A. M. C). i- 



Straight, steep upper profile, as long as broad, 1^ (young) to 2 times as 

 long as eye, which is 3f to 4| times in length of head; in the adult 

 eye twice in interorbital width, and IJ times in prfeorbital depth ; 

 mouth moderately large, extending to between nostril and eye ; teeth 



