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CHARACIMDJE. 



23. ALESTES GRANDISQUAMIS. 



Bouleug. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 85, pi. xxxv. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 159 (1901). 



Depth of body 3J to 4 times in total length, length of head of to 4-J 

 times. Head 1^ to 1|- times as long as broad, a little longer than deep, 

 its width a little less than its length to occiput in the adult ; snout 

 feebly projecting beyond lower jaw, as long as or a little longer than 

 eye, which is infero-lateral and 3 to 4 times in length of head ; adipose 

 eyelid very feebly developed ; interorbital region feebly convex, f to f 

 length of head ; maxillary far from reaching anterior border of eye ; 16 

 or 18 (-g-.) teeth in upper jaw, 10 (gj in lower ; lower border of second 

 suborbital as long as or a little longer than eye. Gill-rakers moderately 

 long, 15-16 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal II 8, opposite 



Fig. 165. 



Alestes grandisquamis. 

 Type (A. M. C.)*\ |. 



middle of space between ventrals and anal, much nearer caudal than 

 occiput, its longest ray § to § length of head. Anal III 10-11. 

 Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral. Caudal forked. 

 Caudal peduncle scarcely longer than deep. Scales with numerous 



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anastomosing canals, 23-27 ^tzti, 1 or 2 between lateral line and root of 



The adipose fin was inadvertently left out by the artist in the original figure. 



