X0T0GLAN1DIUM. 



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24. NOTOGLANIDIUM. 



Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, ii. p. 336. 



Body moderately elongate, feebly compressed. Dorsal and anal fins 

 rather long, the former composed of a spine and 14 or 15 branched rays, 

 and followed by a very long adipose fin which extends to the caudal. 

 Ventral fin with 6 rays, inserted below the posterior part of the dorsal. 

 Three pairs of barbels : maxillary and two mandibulars. Nostrils widely 

 separated from each other, the anterior tubular and on the upper lip, 

 the posterior slit-like. Eye superior, without free border. Prae- 

 maxillaries small ; maxillaries rather long, hidden in the much developed, 

 papillose lip ; jaws with villiform teeth ; palate toothless. Gill- 

 membranes feebly notched, narrowly attached to isthmus. 



Gold Coast. 



1. NOTOGLANIDIUM WALKERI. 

 Giinth. t. c. p. 337, pi. xxxii. 



Depth of body 5 times in total length, length of head 3| times. 



Fig. 292. 



Notoglanidium watkerl. 

 Type, after Giinther (P. Z. S. 1902). f. 



Head rather strongly depressed, l£ times as long as broad, smooth 

 above ; snout obtusely pointed, a little shorter than postocular part of 



