ALESTES. 



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2. ALESTES BAREMOSE. 



Salmo niloticus (non Hasselq.), Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 514 (17G6). 



Salmo dentex, part., Linn. t. c. p. 531. 



Myletes baremose, Joannis, Mag. Zool. 1835, iii. pi. vi. 



Myletes hasselquistii (non Cuv.), Gu(5rin, Icon. R. An., Pois3. pL Ivi. fig, 1 (1814). 



Alestes kotsclvyi, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 308, pLxxi. fig. 3 (1849) ; 



G-iinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 313 (1864), and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 242 (1869) ; 



Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixi. i. 1870, p. 543 ; Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) 



xix. 1898, p. 257. 

 Alestes wytsi, Steind. t. c. p. 542, pi. ii. fig. 1. 

 Alestes haremose, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 488 ; Werner, 



Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1126 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 117, pi. xviii. 



fig. 2 (1907). 

 Alestes splendens, Werner, t. c. p. 1127. 



Depth of body 3f to 5^ times in total length, length of head 4 to 5§ 

 times. Head 2 to 2^ times as long as broad, 1^ to If times as long as 

 deep ; snout rounded, as long as eye (shorter in yonng) ; eye lateral, 

 its diameter 3 (young) to 4 times in length of head ; adipose eyelid 

 well developed ; interorbital region very convex, its width 2|- to S^ times 



Fig. 147. 



Alestes baremose. 

 Lower Nile (F. N.). J. 



in length of head; maxillary not reaching to below anterior border 

 of eye; 14 teeth (g) in upper jaw, 10 (|) in lower; lower border of 

 second suborbital longer than eye in adult. Gill-rakers rather long 

 and slender, closely set, 30-38 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 II 8, equidistant from vertical of last ray of ventral and fiist of anal, or 

 a little nearer latter, equally distant from eye or occiput and from root 

 of caudal; first branched ray longest, as long as or a little longer or a 



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