DISTICHODUS. 



273 



lateral line and root of ventral. Olive or dark grey above, white beneath, 

 the sides with large round dark spots forming four or five irregular 



Kg. 208. 



m 



' ^ 



-'-■A^-'' 



r^ 



Disticltodiis hrevipinnls. 

 White Nile (F.N.). 5.. 



longitudinal series ; fins greyish, except the 

 dorsal spotted with black ; ventrals and anal 



Total length 220 millim. 



White Nile, Chad Basin, Senegal, Niger. 



1-3. Types. 



4-5. Hgr. 



6. Yg. 



7-8. Hgr. 



9. Ad., head & tail. 

 10-11. Yg. 

 12. Yg. 

 13-14. Hgr. 



Khartum. 



Fashoda, White Nile. 



Yo River, Lake Chad. 



Kaedi, Senegal. 



Jebba, Upper Niger. 



Agberi, Lower Niger. 



Assay, 



Benue River, N. of I hi. 



pectoral, which is whitish ; 

 sometimes blackish. 



J. Petherick, Esq. (C). 

 L. Loat, Esq. (C). 

 Capt. G. B. Gosling (P.). 

 M. P. Delhez (C), 

 Capt. G. F. Abadie (P.). 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 

 J. S. Budgett, Esq. (P.). 

 H. L. Norton Traill,Esq. (C). 



14. DISTICHODUS NILOTICUS. 



Salmo niloticus, part., Linn, in Hasselq. Reise Palaj^t. p. 422 (17G2). 



Salmo cegyptiacus, part., Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1386 (1788). 



Characinus nefascK, part., Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 274 (1803) ; Geoffr. Descr. 



Egypte, Poiss. p. 44 (1809). 

 Citharinus nefasch, part., Riipp. Beschr. n. Fische Nil, p. 5 (1829), 

 Distichodus niloticus, Miill. & Trosch. Hor. Ichthyol. i. p. 12, pi. i. fig. 3 (1845) ; 

 Gunth. C!at. Fish. v. p. 360 (1864), and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 246 (1869) ; 

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