ALESTES. 



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2. ALESTES BAREMOSE. 



Salmo niloticus (non Hasselq.), Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 514 (1766). 



Salmo dent ex, part., Linn. t. c. p. 531. 



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



Myletes hasselquistii (non Cuv.), Guerin, Icon. R. An., Poiss. pi. lvi. fig. 1 (1844). 



Alestes kotscliyi, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 308, pi. xxi. fig. 3 (1849) ; 



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



Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxi. 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 baremose, 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 3§ to o\ times in total length, length of head. 4 to 5f 

 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 young); eye lateral, 

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

 well developed ; interorbital region very convex, its width 2f to 3^ times 



Fig. 147. 



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Alestes baremose. 

 Lower Nile (F. N.). §. 



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

 of eye; 14 teeth (y) 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 

 118, equidistant from vertical of last ray of ventral and first 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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