ANABAS. 



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greater part covered with scales. Caudal peduncle merely indicated. 

 Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 28 ■£; lateral lines g^" Dark 

 brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each 

 side of the head, passing through the eye ; another, oblique, below 

 the eye. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Yembe River, Ubanghi. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



Fig. 41. 



Anabas oxyrjiynchus. 

 Type (A. M. C). %. 



16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. 

 Ctenopoma petherici (non Giinth.), Schilth. Tijdschr. Nedcrl. Dicrk. Ver. (2) iii. 



1891, p. 84. 

 Ctenopoma ocellatum, Pellegi - . Bull. Mus. Paris, 1809, p. 359. 

 Ctenopoma acutirostre, Pellegr. t. c. p. 3G0. 

 Ctenopoma denticulatum, Pellegr. t. c. p. 301. 

 Anabas loeelcsii, part., Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 243, and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 377 (1901). 

 Anabas ocellatus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 53. 

 Anabas weeksii, Steind. Denksclir. Ak. Wien, lxxxix. 1913, p. 51. 



Depth of body If to 2^ times in total length, length of head 2| to 

 3 times. Snout very pointed, as long as eye ; upper profile of head 

 straight or concave; eye 3^ to 4 times in length of head, 1 to \\ times 

 in interorbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior border or 

 anterior fourth of eye ; palatine teeth present ; praeorbital entire ; angle 

 of prreoperculum sometimes feebly serrated ; interoperculum and sub- 

 operculum entire or serrated ; several spines above and below opercular 

 notch. 9 to 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 XVI-XVIII 9-12 ; spines equal from the sixth or seventh, about 



