DISTICHODUS. 



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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 



Fig. 208. 



Bistichodus brevipinnis. 

 White Nile (F. 1ST.). *. 



longitudinal series ; fins greyish, except the 

 dorsal spotted with black ; ventrals and anal 



Total length. 220 millim. 



White Nile, Chad Basin, Senegal, Niger. 



Khartum. 



Fashoda, White Nile. 



1-3. Types. 



4-5. Hgr. 



6. Yg. 



7-8. Hgr. 



9. Ad., head & tail. 

 10-11. Yg. 

 12. Yg. 

 13-14. Hsr. 



Yo River, Lake Chad. 

 KaeJi, 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. Delhea (C). 

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

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (0.). 

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

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



14. DISTICHODUS NILOTICUS. 



Salmo niloticus, part., Linn, in Hasselq. Reise Palae*t. p. 422 (1762). 



Salmq mgyptiacus, part., Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 138G (1788). 



Characinus nefasch, part., Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 274 (1803) ; Geoftr. Descr. 



Egypte, Poiss. p. 44 (1809). 

 Citharinus nefasch, part., Riipp. Beschr. n. Fisehe Nil, p. 5 ''1829). 

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



Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 360 (1864). and Petherick'a Trav. ii. p. 246 (1869) ; 

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